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Interlaken Beach, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Covert town. It lies in ZIP code area 14847. It stands on Lively Run. The Survey maps it on the Sheldrake quadrangle.

Interlaken Beach within Seneca County

Then and now

1902 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Interlaken Beach, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Interlaken Beach, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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

43 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Interlaken Beach between 2000 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined23
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural3
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2016Debris and open burning6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
16 September 2018Misuse of fire by a minor2.5 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
31 August 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 July 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Seneca County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Interlaken Beach: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. 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
J.C.Mahaney WellSaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Seneca County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Interlaken Beach in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2022Thunderstorm WindInterlaken Beach$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto all lanes of NY-89.

Every storm recorded in Seneca 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
Holton Beach0.6 miles23
Bergen Beach0.8 miles23
Kidders1.0 miles23
Cold Springs1.5 miles23
Interlaken2.1 miles23
Sheldrake2.8 miles23
Covert3.5 miles23
Sheldrake Springs4.2 miles25

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 Q122541724The 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 974031. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.