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Eagle Bay, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Webb town. It lies in ZIP code area 13331. The Survey maps it on the Eagle Bay quadrangle. 54 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Eagle Bay within Herkimer County

Then and now

1903 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Eagle Bay, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Eagle Bay, surveyed 1903

On record in Eagle Bay

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 28 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

28 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Eagle Bay between 1995 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural4
Debris and open burning3
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
23 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersCASCADE LAKE FIRE
22 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2003Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
8 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 August 2005Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
20 August 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersSITE 8 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Herkimer County

Storms near this place

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eagle Bay in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 1995Thunderstorm WindEagle Bay$7,000no account filed
March 2020Thunderstorm WindEagle Bay$1,000Trees and wires were downed.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindEagle Bay-A tree was down and on a garage on Fourth Lake near Old Forge due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindEagle Bay-A tree was down on South Shore Road near Old Forge in the town of Webb blocking the roadway due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindEagle Bay-Wires were reported down in Eagle Bay as a result of thunderstorm winds.
May 2017HailEagle Bay-no account filed
April 2004HailEagle Bay-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Herkimer 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
Big Moose6.2 miles28
Mountain Lodge7.6 miles24
Woods Lake9.1 miles28
Old Forge9.3 miles24
Beaver River10.5 miles28
Thendara10.9 miles23
Brandreth11.8 miles28
Stillwater14.3 miles20

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.

Wikipedia article on Eagle BayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5325019The 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 948907. 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.