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Greenwood Village, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Brookhaven town. It lies in ZIP code area 11949. The Survey maps it on the Moriches quadrangle.

Greenwood Village within Suffolk County

Then and now

1904 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Greenwood Village, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Greenwood Village, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

714 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 714 fires within 5 miles of Greenwood Village between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,616 acres in total. 53 started naturally. 114 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/undetermined482
Arson/incendiarism114
Natural53
Equipment and vehicle use34
Smoking14
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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
8 September 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNew York Forest RangersTOOL FIRE
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2005Missing 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

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
South Manor2.0 miles18
Center Moriches2.4 miles18
Moriches2.5 miles18
East Moriches2.6 miles18
Manorville2.8 miles18
Eastport3.2 miles27
Mastic3.5 miles18
Bellview Beach3.5 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2461071. 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.