Bay View, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Southold town. It lies in ZIP code area 11971. It stands on Richmond Creek. The Survey maps it on the Southold quadrangle.

Bay View within Suffolk County

Then and now

1904 to 1983

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 Bay View, surveyed 1983

Topographic sheet of Bay View, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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.

1904 USGS Shelter Island quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1947 USGS Southold quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Southold quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS New Haven quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

107 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Bay View between 1995 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 11 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	51
Natural	13
Arson/incendiarism	11
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Debris and open burning	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Smoking	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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
5 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
14 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 September 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 August 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 August 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.9 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Suffolk 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
Bayview	0.6 miles	22
Laughing Waters	0.6 miles	22
Reydon Shores	1.2 miles	22
Cedar Beach	1.3 miles	22
Southold	1.7 miles	22
Beixedon Estates	1.9 miles	22
Peconic	2.3 miles	22
Nassau Farms	2.4 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973338. 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.