Long Eddy, New York
25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Fremont town. It lies in ZIP code area 12760. It stands on Basket Creek. The Survey maps it on the Long Eddy quadrangle. It stands 850 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1920 to 1992The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1920 against another survey:
On record in Long Eddy
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 1 record
- Riverside Cemeterylisted 1993
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 25 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.
- 1920 USGS Long Eddy quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1921 USGS Long Eddy quadrangle1:48000
- 1923 USGS Long Eddy quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1943 USGS Honesdale quadrangle1:125000
- 1944 USGS Long Eddy quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Long Eddy quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Honesdale quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Long Eddy quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
25 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Long Eddy between 2005 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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 | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 1 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 June 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 8 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 8 May 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 May 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 6 May 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Long Eddy in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Long Eddy | $3,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Long Eddy | $2,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree and wires on Route 97. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Long Eddy | - | Trees down. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Long Eddy | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basket | 1.3 miles | 25 | |
| Hankins | 3.5 miles | 25 | |
| Mileses | 3.7 miles | 25 | |
| Fernwood | 3.8 miles | 25 | |
| Fremont Center | 4.8 miles | 25 | |
| Pleasant Valley | 6.0 miles | 25 | |
| Acidalia | 6.3 miles | 24 | |
| Obernburg | 6.7 miles | 25 |
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 Long Eddy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q48740098 | 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 955852. 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.












