Jones Beach, New York

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Carlton town. It lies in ZIP code area 14477. It sits by Brighton Cliff. The Survey maps it on the Kent quadrangle.

Jones Beach within Orleans County

Then and now

1897 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Jones Beach, surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of Jones Beach, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1897 USGS Oak Orchard quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1949 USGS Kendall quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Kent quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Lockport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

32 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Jones Beach between 2008 and 2020, burning about 18 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined	13
Arson/incendiarism	7
Smoking	4
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	2

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
24 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
29 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
12 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 July 2020	Natural	3.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
18 July 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 June 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orleans 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
Point Breeze	2.3 miles	14
Sawyer	2.5 miles	14
Kent	3.3 miles	14
Baldwin Corner	3.4 miles	14
Lomond Shore	3.6 miles	16
Rock Ledge Beach	3.9 miles	14
Carlton	3.9 miles	14
Toms Landing	4.6 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 954154. 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.