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Bayview, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lyme town. The Survey maps it on the Cape Vincent South quadrangle.

Bayview within Jefferson County

Then and now

1895 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bayview, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Bayview, surveyed 1895

On record in Bayview

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

64 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Bayview between 2001 and 2020, burning about 114 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined43
Arson/incendiarism7
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1

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
8 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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
Herrick Grove3.7 miles16
Three Mile Bay3.7 miles16
Point Peninsula4.0 miles16
Rosiere4.7 miles16
Adams Cove6.3 miles16
Cape Vincent6.4 miles17
Chaumont6.9 miles16
Warren7.2 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973730. 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.