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Westons Mills, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Portville town. It lies in ZIP code area 14788. It stands on Haskell Creek. The Survey maps it on the Olean quadrangle. 1,525 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,463 feet above sea level.

Westons Mills within Cattaraugus County

Then and now

1898 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Westons Mills, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Westons Mills, surveyed 1898

Population over time

2 figures

Westons Mills grew from 1,472 to 1,525 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,472
20201,525+53 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

175 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of Westons Mills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 115 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 20 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined77
Debris and open burning32
Arson/incendiarism20
Natural18
Smoking16
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2008Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2008Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cattaraugus County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Westons Mills: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Allegany Aggregates PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Allegany Aggregates PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Millgrove Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Portville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cattaraugus County

Storms near this place

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westons Mills in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2012HailWestons Mills$15,000no account filed
September 2017Thunderstorm WindWestons Mills$10,000Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindWestons Mills$10,000no account filed
August 2024Thunderstorm WindWestons Mills$2,000Trees downed on a powerline on Haskell Road.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWestons Mills$2,000Trees downed across Olean-Portville Road.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindWestons Mills$2,000Trees down.

Every storm recorded in Cattaraugus County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Weston Mills1.0 miles19
Portville2.5 miles19
East Olean2.6 miles19
Seneca Heights2.7 miles19
Olean3.0 miles19
Lake View Terrace3.0 miles19
Toll Gate Corner3.2 miles19
Boardmanville3.3 miles19

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Westons MillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3460142The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 970939. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.