Demster Beach, New York

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1985. It stands in New Haven town. It lies in ZIP code area 13126. It stands on Butterfly Creek. The Survey maps it on the Texas quadrangle.

Demster Beach within Oswego County

Then and now

1943 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 42 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Demster Beach, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Demster Beach, surveyed 1943

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1943 USGS Texas quadrangle1:31680
1955 USGS Texas quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Pulaski quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

38 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Demster Beach between 2001 and 2020, burning about 35 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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	20
Arson/incendiarism	12
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	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
15 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 July 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 May 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 May 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 May 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
20 May 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
17 May 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oswego 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
Hickory Grove	0.6 miles	12
Demster	1.3 miles	21
Pleasant Point Crossing	1.7 miles	21
New Haven	2.4 miles	21
Shore Oaks	2.6 miles	12
Texas	3.1 miles	12
Arthur	3.5 miles	18
North Church Corner	4.1 miles	22

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 Q122562894

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 948295. 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.