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Willow Brook, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ellery town. It lies in ZIP code area 14712. It stands on Browns Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chautauqua quadrangle.

Willow Brook within Chautauqua County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Willow Brook, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Willow Brook, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

70 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Willow Brook between 1995 and 2020, burning about 80 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined33
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural9
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
24 September 2017Debris and open burning1.1 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2020Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
11 September 2015Debris and open burning13 acresNew York Forest RangersGORDON FIRE
11 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
11 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkGORDON FIRE
9 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.6 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
17 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chautauqua County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willow Brook in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2017Thunderstorm WindWillow Brook$10,000Thunderstorm wind downed trees on Lakeside Drive.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindWillow Brook$2,000Trees were down onto Maple Springs - Ellery Road.

Every storm recorded in Chautauqua 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
Bayview0.4 miles17
West Ellery1.3 miles17
Bemus Point1.3 miles17
Woodlawn1.4 miles17
Victoria1.4 miles17
Stow1.4 miles17
Maple Springs1.6 miles17
Magnolia1.8 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 971336. 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.

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.