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Foxwood Village, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Riverhead town. It lies in ZIP code area 11933. The Survey maps it on the Riverhead quadrangle.

Foxwood Village within Suffolk County

Then and now

1903 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Foxwood Village, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Foxwood Village, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

491 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 491 fires within 5 miles of Foxwood Village between 1993 and 2020, burning about 5,761 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 89 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/undetermined283
Arson/incendiarism89
Natural40
Equipment and vehicle use27
Smoking22
Recreation and ceremony13
Debris and open burning10
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
9 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNew York Forest RangersTOOL FIRE
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2015Natural3.3 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
4 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Foxwood Village: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Riverhead Cement Block Company PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Roanoke Avenue PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Suffolk Cement Products PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
Glenwood Village0.8 miles28
Sweyze1.1 miles28
Lakewood Park1.2 miles28
Calverton2.5 miles28
Baiting Hollow2.6 miles28
Riverhead2.7 miles28
Centerville2.8 miles28
Reeves Park2.8 miles28

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.

Wikidata item Q122539571The 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 2461070. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.