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Laughing Waters, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Southold town. It lies in ZIP code area 11971. It stands on Richmond Creek. The Survey maps it on the Southold quadrangle.

Laughing Waters within Suffolk County

Then and now

1904 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Laughing Waters, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Laughing Waters, surveyed 1904

On record in Laughing Waters

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 1 record

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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

95 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Laughing Waters between 1995 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined47
Natural12
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3
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
5 September 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLong Island National Wildlife Refuge ComplexMORT95-11

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Laughing Waters in 1 storm report in 2015: 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
June 2015Thunderstorm WindLaughing Waters$5,500There were two large trees reported down. The first was down on wires at the intersection of New York State Route 25 (Main Road) and South Harbor Road, the second at the intersection of South Harbor Road and Baywater Avenue.

Every storm 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
Bay View0.6 miles22
Bayview1.1 miles22
Cedar Beach1.7 miles22
Reydon Shores1.8 miles22
Nassau Farms1.8 miles22
Peconic2.0 miles22
Southold2.0 miles22
East Cutchogue2.3 miles22

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 Q122568307The 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 955077. 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.

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.