1. Start with Wheatfield’s actual service boundary
Wheatfield is recorded as a municipal town in Niagara County, New York. That relationship should inform the intake’s geographic questions without turning a town-level population estimate into a forecast. If your firm serves Wheatfield and other locations, the intake should make location relevant to qualification and routing only where your practice and coverage require it. A visitor’s location can affect whether your firm can review a matter, but the correct rule belongs to your firm.
Recommended approach
Bring your service-area definition to the consultation. Decide whether the flow should ask where an incident occurred, where a person lives, where a case is pending, or another legally relevant location. Keep Wheatfield, Niagara County and any broader area distinct in the rules and in later reporting.
