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Ditch Plains, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1984. It stands in East Hampton town. It lies in ZIP code area 11954. The Survey maps it on the Montauk Point quadrangle.

Ditch Plains within Suffolk County

Then and now

1904 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ditch Plains, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Ditch Plains, surveyed 1904

On record in Ditch Plains

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

50 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Ditch Plains between 2005 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. 5 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined21
Debris and open burning18
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
8 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Suffolk 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
Montauk2.0 miles21
Montauk Station2.0 miles21
Montauk Beach2.8 miles21
Napeague8.2 miles23
Devon10.6 miles24
Beach Hampton10.9 miles24
Eastside11.7 miles25
Barnes Hole11.7 miles25

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 Q122598518The 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 948488. 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.