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.
Then and now
1903 to 1989The 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.


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
Big Moose Community Chapellisted 2012- Camp Veerylisted 2023
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 28 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.
- 1903 USGS Big Moose quadrangle1:62500, 11 printings
- 1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Big Moose quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Raquette Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Eagle Bay quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
28 since 1995Regional 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 ceremony | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | CASCADE LAKE FIRE |
| 22 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 12 September 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 8 August 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 23 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 22 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 21 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 20 August 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | SITE 8 FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eagle Bay | $7,000 | no account filed |
| March 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eagle Bay | $1,000 | Trees and wires were downed. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eagle Bay | - | A tree was down and on a garage on Fourth Lake near Old Forge due to thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eagle 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 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eagle Bay | - | Wires were reported down in Eagle Bay as a result of thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Eagle Bay | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Eagle Bay | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Moose | 6.2 miles | 28 | |
| Mountain Lodge | 7.6 miles | 24 | |
| Woods Lake | 9.1 miles | 28 | |
| Old Forge | 9.3 miles | 24 | |
| Beaver River | 10.5 miles | 28 | |
| Thendara | 10.9 miles | 23 | |
| Brandreth | 11.8 miles | 28 | |
| Stillwater | 14.3 miles | 20 |
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 Bay | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5325019 | 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 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.








