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Lighthouse Beach, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Parma town. It lies in ZIP code area 14468. The Survey maps it on the Hilton quadrangle.

Lighthouse Beach within Monroe County

Then and now

1899 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lighthouse Beach, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Lighthouse Beach, surveyed 1899

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

53 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Lighthouse Beach between 2002 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 20 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/undetermined25
Arson/incendiarism20
Natural3
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNew York Forest RangersBRADDOCK BAY, LEO
10 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.4 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
30 August 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Davison Beach0.3 miles19
Payne Beach1.6 miles27
Wautoma Beach2.4 miles19
Bartlett Corners2.6 miles19
Manitou Beach2.9 miles27
Hilton3.9 miles19
Collamer4.0 miles19
Braddock Heights4.2 miles27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 955292. 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.