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Coolidge Beach, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Wilson town. It lies in ZIP code area 14172. It stands on Twelvemile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wilson quadrangle.

Coolidge Beach within Niagara County

Then and now

1894 to 1984

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 Coolidge Beach, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Coolidge Beach, surveyed 1894

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

67 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Coolidge Beach between 2002 and 2020, burning about 86 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined37
Natural13
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
25 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
20 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
30 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 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 Niagara 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
Roosevelt Beach0.5 miles23
Hopkins Beach1.1 miles25
Sunset Beach1.4 miles23
Wilson2.2 miles23
Elberta2.9 miles23
Uneeda Beach2.9 miles25
Pleasant Corners3.6 miles23
Ransomville5.2 miles28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 947368. 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.