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Canoe Place, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Southampton town. It lies in ZIP code area 11946. The Survey maps it on the Mattituck quadrangle.

Canoe Place within Suffolk County

Then and now

1903 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Canoe Place, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Canoe Place, surveyed 1903

On record in Canoe Place

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

Fires near this place

175 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of Canoe Place between 1992 and 2019, burning about 85 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 29 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/undetermined123
Arson/incendiarism29
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony4
Debris and open burning3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Canoe Place in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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 2011Thunderstorm WindCanoe Place$7,500Numerous trees were reported down in the Hamlet of Hampton Bays.
September 2013LightningCanoe Place$1,000A lightning strike caused the Hampton Bays Police Department to lose their communications system.
August 2024Flash FloodCanoe Place-Spotter reports fire department responding to a flooded home on Bittersweet Avenue in Hampton Bays.
September 2013HailCanoe Place-Quarter size hail was reported across Hampton Bays.
December 2008FloodCanoe Place-Montauk Highway was closed in Shinnecock Hills due to major flooding.

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
Newtown0.7 miles29
Squiretown1.3 miles29
Hampton Bays1.6 miles27
Springville1.9 miles27
Shinnecock Hills2.1 miles23
Ponquogue2.2 miles27
Tiana2.3 miles27
Southport2.7 miles29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 945786. 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.