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.
Then and now
1895 to 1984The 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 sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 27 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1895 USGS Ontario Beach quadrangle1:62500
- 1899 USGS Ontario Beach quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1912 USGS Ontario Beach quadrangle1:62500
- 1920 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1934 USGS Braddock Heights quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1952 USGS Braddock Heights quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Braddock Heights quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
407 since 2000Regional 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/undetermined | 220 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 89 |
| Smoking | 51 |
| Natural | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 8 September 2014 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 7 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 3 September 2018 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 28 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2010Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crescent Beach | $20,000 | A public call reported several trees down at Long Pond Shores apartment complex. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Island Cottage Beach | 0.9 miles | 27 | |
| Grand View Beach | 1.5 miles | 27 | |
| Rigney Bluff | 1.6 miles | 27 | |
| Grand View Heights | 1.8 miles | 27 | |
| Mount Read | 2.1 miles | 27 | |
| Braddock Heights | 2.5 miles | 27 | |
| Charlotte | 3.1 miles | 18 | |
| Ontario Beach | 3.2 miles | 18 |
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.










