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Crescent Beach, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Greece town. It lies in ZIP code area 14612. It lies near Huckleberry Island. The Survey maps it on the Braddock Heights quadrangle.

Crescent Beach within Monroe County

Then and now

1895 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Crescent Beach, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Crescent Beach, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 27 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

407 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 407 fires within 5 miles of Crescent Beach between 2000 and 2020, burning about 399 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 89 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/undetermined220
Arson/incendiarism89
Smoking51
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use9
Debris and open burning9
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony2

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
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
3 September 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crescent Beach in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2010Thunderstorm WindCrescent Beach$20,000A public call reported several trees down at Long Pond Shores apartment complex.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Island Cottage Beach0.9 miles27
Grand View Beach1.5 miles27
Rigney Bluff1.6 miles27
Grand View Heights1.8 miles27
Mount Read2.1 miles27
Braddock Heights2.5 miles27
Charlotte3.1 miles18
Ontario Beach3.2 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 947737. 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.