Manitou Beach, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Greece town. It lies in ZIP code area 14468. It stands on Salmon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Braddock Heights quadrangle.

Manitou Beach within Monroe County

Then and now

1895 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Manitou Beach, surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of Manitou Beach, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 27 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.

1895 USGS Ontario Beach quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Ontario Beach quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1912 USGS Ontario Beach quadrangle1:62500
1920 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1934 USGS Braddock Heights quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1952 USGS Braddock Heights quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Braddock Heights quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

78 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Manitou Beach between 2003 and 2019, burning about 184 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 26 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	34
Arson/incendiarism	26
Smoking	8
Natural	5
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 2014	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
27 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
13 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	BRADDOCK BAY, LEO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manitou Beach in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2023: 1 tornado, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2013	Tornado (EF0)	Manitou Beach	$35,000	A waterspout over Lake Ontario briefly crossed a small section of Braddock Point before moving back out over the waters of Braddock Bay.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Manitou Beach	$3,000	Siding was blown off a house and a garage door was damaged. Several trees were also downed.

Every storm 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Payne Beach	1.3 miles	27
Braddock Heights	1.4 miles	27
Grand View Heights	2.2 miles	27
Grand View Beach	2.4 miles	27
Lighthouse Beach	2.9 miles	19
Davison Beach	3.2 miles	19
Crescent Beach	3.9 miles	27
Bartlett Corners	4.3 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 956356. 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.