Wileyville, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1986. It stands in West Union town. It lies in ZIP code area 14877. The Survey maps it on the Rexville quadrangle.

Wileyville within Steuben County

Then and now

1926 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 60 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wileyville, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Wileyville, surveyed 1926

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

1926 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Rexville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Hornell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

26 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Wileyville between 2003 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined	9
Natural	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
1 July 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Pennsylvania Division of Forest Fire Protection	not named
8 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
27 May 2005	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 May 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
10 May 2011	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 April 2008	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 April 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 April 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Steuben 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
McGraws	3.6 miles	17
Rexville	4.3 miles	17
Alice	4.4 miles	17
Barney Mills	4.5 miles	17
West Union	4.9 miles	17
Young Hickory	5.0 miles	17
Rough and Ready	6.0 miles	17
Lila	6.6 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973270. 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.