Davison Beach, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Parma town. It lies in ZIP code area 14468. It stands on East Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hilton quadrangle.

Davison Beach within Monroe County

Then and now

1899 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Davison Beach, surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of Davison Beach, surveyed 1899

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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.

1899 USGS Hamlin quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1934 USGS Hilton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1952 USGS Hilton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Hilton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

55 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Davison Beach between 2002 and 2020, burning about 22 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 22 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	25
Arson/incendiarism	22
Natural	3
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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
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
14 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	BRADDOCK BAY, LEO
10 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.4 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.4 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
30 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lighthouse Beach	0.3 miles	19
Payne Beach	1.9 miles	27
Wautoma Beach	2.0 miles	19
Bartlett Corners	2.4 miles	19
Manitou Beach	3.2 miles	27
Collamer	3.7 miles	19
Hilton	3.8 miles	19
Shore Acres	4.3 miles	19

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122595216

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 974169. 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.