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Idlewood On The Lake, New York

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Sodus town. It lies in ZIP code area 14555. It stands on Salmon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Salmon Creek quadrangle.

Idlewood On The Lake within Wayne 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 Idlewood On The Lake, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Idlewood On The Lake, surveyed 1902

On record in Idlewood On The Lake

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 within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

146 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Idlewood On The Lake between 2000 and 2020, burning about 125 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 39 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/undetermined81
Arson/incendiarism39
Debris and open burning11
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
29 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 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 Wayne 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 Idlewood On The Lake: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Salmon CreekIronPast Producer
Beckens PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Highway Dept PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wayne 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
Sodus Point1.1 miles21
Wallington3.3 miles20
Sodus3.5 miles20
Lake Bluff3.6 miles21
Sunset View4.0 miles23
Alton4.3 miles23
Sodus Center4.5 miles20
Bonni Castle4.6 miles23

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 Q122542575The 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 2494621. 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.