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Cedar Beach, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Southold town. It lies in ZIP code area 11971. The Survey maps it on the Southold quadrangle.

Cedar Beach within Suffolk County

Then and now

1904 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cedar Beach, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Cedar Beach, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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

115 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Beach between 1995 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined54
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use12
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism9
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
10 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Bayview1.0 miles22
Reydon Shores1.0 miles22
Bay View1.3 miles22
Laughing Waters1.7 miles22
Westmoreland2.3 miles22
Silver Beach2.5 miles22
Beixedon Estates2.6 miles22
Southold2.7 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2105494. 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.