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Wolcottsville, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Royalton town. It lies in ZIP code area 14001. The Survey maps it on the Wolcottsville quadrangle.

Wolcottsville within Niagara County

Then and now

1897 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wolcottsville, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Wolcottsville, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 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

53 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Wolcottsville between 2000 and 2019, burning about 41 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined32
Debris and open burning11
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1

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
4 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Niagara County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wolcottsville in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 flood. 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
April 2017FloodWolcottsville$15,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Niagara 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
Gilberts Corner3.0 miles27
Dysinger3.4 miles27
Royalton Center3.8 miles27
McNalls4.8 miles27
Terrys Corners6.1 miles27
Rapids6.6 miles27
Reynales Basin6.7 miles27
Gasport6.8 miles27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 971541. 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.