BlockLewbeach, New York
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Rockland town. It lies in ZIP code area 12758. It stands on Shin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lewbeach quadrangle.
Then and now
1922 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 64 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1922 USGS Andes quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1924 USGS Andes quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Lewbeach quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Lewbeach between 1998 and 2017, burning about 11 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 May 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 16 May 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 19 April 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 19 April 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 17 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 14 April 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.2 acres | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 13 April 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 11 April 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lewbeach in 3 storm reports in 2009: 2 hail, 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.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaverkill | 3.1 miles | 22 | |
| Grooville | 4.4 miles | 22 | |
| Craigie Clair | 5.1 miles | 22 | |
| Joscelyn | 5.3 miles | 22 | |
| Deckertown | 6.1 miles | 22 | |
| Parkston | 6.9 miles | 22 | |
| Debruce | 7.0 miles | 24 | |
| Hazel | 7.1 miles | 22 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Lewbeach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6535937 | 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 955236. 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.