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Fair Harbor, New York

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Islip town. It lies in ZIP code area 11706. It lies near East Fire Island. The Survey maps it on the Bay Shore East quadrangle.

Fair Harbor within Suffolk County

Then and now

1902 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fair Harbor, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Fair Harbor, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 30 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

13 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Fair Harbor between 2001 and 2019, burning about 6 acres in total. None 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/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 May 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 May 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

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
Lonelyville0.5 miles30
Saltaire0.7 miles30
Atlantique0.7 miles30
Kismet1.1 miles30
Robbins Rest1.1 miles30
Ocean Beach1.5 miles30
Seaview1.9 miles30
Fire Island2.1 miles30

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 949800. 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.