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Bernhards Bay, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Constantia town. It lies in ZIP code area 13028. It stands on Lydiatt Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cleveland quadrangle. It stands 390 feet above sea level.

Bernhards Bay within Oswego 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 Bernhards Bay, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Bernhards Bay, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

Fires near this place

90 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Bernhards Bay between 2001 and 2020, burning about 92 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined55
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
7 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oswego County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bernhards Bay: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Feldspar. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Overlook QuarryFeldsparPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oswego County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bernhards Bay in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
May 1994HailBernhards Bay$5,000Afternoon thunderstorms produced hail up to one inch in diameter. Trees and wires were downed by a weak tornado in Central Square. The tornado also destroyed a garage.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindBernhards Bay$1,000Trees downed on Kibbie Lake Road.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindBernhards Bay$500Tree downed across roadway.

Every storm recorded in Oswego 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
Nicholsville2.5 miles20
Constantia Center2.6 miles20
Cleveland2.7 miles28
Dutcherville3.3 miles20
Constantia3.5 miles29
Doris Park4.8 miles29
Panther Lake5.9 miles20
Gayville6.0 miles19

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.

Wikipedia article on Bernhards BayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740246The 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 943742. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.