Island Cottage Beach, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Greece town. It lies in ZIP code area 14612. It stands on Round Pond Creek. The Survey maps it on the Braddock Heights quadrangle.

Island Cottage Beach within Monroe County

Then and now

1895 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Island Cottage Beach, surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of Island Cottage Beach, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 27 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.

1895 USGS Ontario Beach quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Ontario Beach quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1912 USGS Ontario Beach quadrangle1:62500
1920 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1934 USGS Braddock Heights quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1952 USGS Braddock Heights quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Braddock Heights quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

467 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 467 fires within 5 miles of Island Cottage Beach between 2000 and 2020, burning about 430 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 95 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	260
Arson/incendiarism	95
Smoking	58
Natural	16
Debris and open burning	10
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Recreation and ceremony	3

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 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2014	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
30 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Rigney Bluff	0.7 miles	27
Crescent Beach	0.9 miles	27
Mount Read	1.8 miles	27
Charlotte	2.2 miles	18
Ontario Beach	2.2 miles	18
Grand View Beach	2.4 miles	27
Grand View Heights	2.8 miles	27
Summerville	2.8 miles	18

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 Q122595587

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 953818. 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.