BlockMoon Beach, New York
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sterling town. It lies in ZIP code area 13156. It stands on Ninemile Creek. The Survey maps it on the West Ninemile Point quadrangle.
Then and now
1900 to 1985The 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 sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 22 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.
- 1900 USGS Oswego quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
- 1943 USGS West Ninemile Point quadrangle1:31680
- 1954 USGS West Ninemile Point quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Oswego quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
43 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Moon Beach between 2000 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 | 21 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2017 | Smoking | 1.3 acres | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 7 August 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 29 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 28 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 26 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 23 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 2 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 18 August 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Sterling | 2.2 miles | 24 | |
| Sterling Valley | 3.5 miles | 24 | |
| Crocketts | 4.9 miles | 24 | |
| Sterling | 4.9 miles | 24 | |
| North Fair Haven | 5.3 miles | 24 | |
| Fair Haven | 6.4 miles | 24 | |
| Fintches Corners | 8.1 miles | 24 | |
| Martville | 8.2 miles | 24 |
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 Q122544766 | 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 957580. 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.