Beach Ridge, New York

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

Beach Ridge 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 Beach Ridge, surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of Beach Ridge, 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

200 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 200 fires within 5 miles of Beach Ridge between 2000 and 2020, burning about 105 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 45 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	99
Arson/incendiarism	45
Natural	32
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Smoking	6
Debris and open burning	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
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
4 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
3 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

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
Hoffman	1.1 miles	28
Sawyer	1.8 miles	28
Wurlitzer Park Village	2.3 miles	28
Nashville	2.3 miles	28
Martinsville	2.5 miles	28
Mapleton	2.9 miles	28
Wendelville	2.9 miles	28
Pendleton Center	3.1 miles	28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 974185. 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.