Boultons Beach, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hounsfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 13685. It lies near Horse Island. The Survey maps it on the Henderson Bay quadrangle.

Boultons Beach within Jefferson County

Then and now

1893 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Boultons Beach, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Boultons Beach, surveyed 1893

On record in Boultons Beach

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 1 record

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

Sackets Harbor Battlefieldlisted 1974 · 0.7 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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.

1893 USGS Sackets Harbor quadrangle1:62500
1895 USGS Sackets Harbor quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1895 USGS Sacketts Harbor quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1942 USGS Henderson Bay quadrangle1:31680
1959 USGS Henderson Bay quadrangle1:24000
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Henderson Bay quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Pulaski quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

76 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Boultons Beach between 2002 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 12 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	37
Arson/incendiarism	12
Natural	10
Debris and open burning	7
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Other causes	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
7 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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
Sackets Harbor	1.1 miles	20
Pillar Point	2.4 miles	20
Jewettville	2.7 miles	20
Camps Mills	3.3 miles	20
Baggs Corner	4.3 miles	20
Babbitt Corner	4.4 miles	21
Smithville	4.5 miles	20
Adams Cove	5.1 miles	16

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 Q122559094

The 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 944495. 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.