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Beixedon Estates, 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 Jockey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Southold quadrangle.

Beixedon Estates 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 Beixedon Estates, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Beixedon Estates, surveyed 1904

On record in Beixedon Estates

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 3 records

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

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.

Fires near this place

99 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Beixedon Estates between 2000 and 2020, burning about 55 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined42
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use12
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
5 September 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 September 2010Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 September 2011Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beixedon Estates in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2016LightningBeixedon Estates$500,000A house was struck by lighting on Wells Avenue in Southold, causing a fire which destroyed the house.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBeixedon Estates$10,000Multiple trees and telephone poles were reported down between Peconic and Southold, closing County Route 48, and sending a large tree limb into the front of a house in Southold.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindBeixedon Estates$3,000Trees and wires were reported down, blocking Lighthouse Road near Soundview Avenue, just east of Horton Point Lighthouse on the north fork.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBeixedon Estates$2,000Several large tree limbs were reported down on area roadways in the Town of Southhold.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindBeixedon Estates$1,500Large diameter tree limbs were reported down in Southold.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBeixedon Estates$1,000Tree reported down blocking Route 48.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindBeixedon Estates-Trained spotter measured a 51 knot gust at home weather station in Southhold NY.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Southold0.8 miles22
Reydon Shores1.6 miles22
Bayview1.8 miles22
Arshamonaque1.8 miles22
Bay View1.9 miles22
Westmoreland2.3 miles22
Laughing Waters2.4 miles22
Cedar Beach2.6 miles22

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 Q122562409The 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 943564. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.