East Woods, New York

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pound Ridge town. It lies in ZIP code area 10576. It lies near Becks Hill. The Survey maps it on the Pound Ridge quadrangle.

East Woods within Westchester County

Then and now

1892 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of East Woods, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of East Woods, surveyed 1892

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 36 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.

1892 USGS Stamford quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Stamford quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Stamford quadrangle1:62500, 13 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1947 USGS Pound Ridge quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1951 USGS Pound Ridge quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Pound Ridge quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1960 USGS Pound Ridge quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

85 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of East Woods between 1994 and 2019, burning about 44 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 14 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	31
Natural	17
Arson/incendiarism	14
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Smoking	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Debris and open burning	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 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
27 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
9 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 August 2006	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Westchester 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
Vista	1.3 miles	36
Scotts Corners	1.8 miles	36
Lewisboro	1.9 miles	36
Pound Ridge	2.3 miles	36
Horseshoe Hill	2.4 miles	36
Sarles Corners	2.8 miles	36
Boutonville	3.6 miles	41
South Salem	4.4 miles	41

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 949281. 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.