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Woodside, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Concord town. It lies in ZIP code area 14141. The Survey maps it on the Langford quadrangle.

Woodside within Erie County

Then and now

1905 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Woodside, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Woodside, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

45 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Woodside between 1995 and 2020, burning about 41 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined29
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Natural2

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
7 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
10 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 July 2017Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 July 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 June 2012Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Woodside: 1 past producer, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Salt, 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
Hagerer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Iroquois Gas Corp.Well No.796SaltProspect
Springville WellSaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Erie 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
Morton Corners0.7 miles16
Concord2.0 miles14
Wyandale2.3 miles16
Marshfield4.3 miles16
New Oregon4.8 miles16
Collins Center5.0 miles16
Springville5.3 miles14
Zoar6.0 miles16

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 WoodsideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8033310The 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 973293. 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.