Wurlitzer Park Village, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in North Tonawanda City. It lies in ZIP code area 14120. It stands on Sawyer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tonawanda East quadrangle.

Wurlitzer Park Village 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 Wurlitzer Park Village, surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of Wurlitzer Park Village, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 28 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.

1897 USGS Tonawanda quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Niagara quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1900 USGS Tonawanda quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS Tonawanda quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1948 USGS Tonawanda quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1950 USGS Tonawanda East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1952 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Tonawanda East quadrangle1:24000
1965 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Tonawanda East quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Lockport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

327 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 327 fires within 5 miles of Wurlitzer Park Village between 2000 and 2020, burning about 149 acres in total. 64 started naturally. 42 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	154
Natural	64
Arson/incendiarism	42
Smoking	32
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Debris and open burning	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Recreation and ceremony	3

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
9 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
9 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sawyer	0.5 miles	28
Martinsville	1.2 miles	28
Nashville	1.3 miles	28
North Tonawanda	1.6 miles	28
Hoffman	1.7 miles	28
Beach Ridge	2.3 miles	28
Park Village	2.5 miles	28
Saint Johnsburg	2.8 miles	30

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.

Wikidata item Q122562666

The 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 971764. 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.