Bergen Beach, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Covert town. It lies in ZIP code area 14847. It stands on Bergen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Trumansburg quadrangle.

Bergen Beach within Seneca County

Then and now

1902 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bergen Beach, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Bergen Beach, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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.

1902 USGS Genoa quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1942 USGS Trumansburg quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Trumansburg quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Trumansburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

40 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Bergen Beach between 2000 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined	24
Arson/incendiarism	7
Debris and open burning	5
Natural	3
Smoking	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
8 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
31 August 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 July 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 July 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Seneca 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
Holton Beach	0.3 miles	23
Cold Springs	0.7 miles	23
Interlaken Beach	0.8 miles	23
Kidders	1.8 miles	23
Interlaken	2.2 miles	23
Covert	2.7 miles	23
Osgood Landing	3.5 miles	23
Sheldrake	3.6 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 973980. 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.