BlockFire Island Pines, New York
29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Brookhaven town. It lies in ZIP code area 11782. It lies near Fire Island. The Survey maps it on the Sayville quadrangle. 12 people lived here at the 2004 count.
Then and now
1902 to 1984The 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.
On record in Fire Island Pines
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 1 record
Carrington Houselisted 2014
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 29 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.
- 1902 USGS Fire Island quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Fire Island quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1904 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1942 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000
- 1947 USGS Sayville quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Sayville quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Sayville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
68 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Fire Island Pines between 1993 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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 | 49 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 24 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 13 September 2011 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 10 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Island National Seashore | CARRINGTON TRACT 02 |
| 8 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 August 2014 | Smoking | 1.1 acres | Fire Island National Seashore | CARRINGTON TRACT 01 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cherry Grove | 1.2 miles | 29 | |
| Water Island | 2.2 miles | 29 | |
| Point o'Woods | 3.3 miles | 30 | |
| Davis Park | 3.6 miles | 29 | |
| Ocean Bay Park | 4.0 miles | 30 | |
| Fire Island | 4.3 miles | 30 | |
| Seaview | 4.5 miles | 30 | |
| Bayberry Dunes | 4.5 miles | 19 |
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 Fire Island Pines | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q822554 | 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 950085. 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.