Big Bay, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in West Monroe town. It lies in ZIP code area 13036. It stands on Big Bay Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cicero quadrangle.

Big 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 Big Bay, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Big Bay, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 29 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.

1895 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
1940 USGS Cicero quadrangle1:24000
1944 USGS Cicero quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1957 USGS Cicero quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Cicero quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

128 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Big Bay between 2000 and 2020, burning about 77 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 15 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	62
Natural	15
Arson/incendiarism	15
Smoking	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Debris and open burning	9
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
18 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
31 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 August 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Toad Harbor	2.4 miles	29
Mud Settlement	2.6 miles	19
Central Square	3.1 miles	22
West Monroe	3.7 miles	19
Whig Hill	4.0 miles	19
Gulf Bridge	4.2 miles	19
Caughdenoy	5.0 miles	22
Doris Park	5.1 miles	29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 943837. 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.