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Mount Read, 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 14616. It lies near Paddy Hill. The Survey maps it on the Braddock Heights quadrangle.

Mount Read 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 Mount Read, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Mount Read, surveyed 1895

On record in Mount Read

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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.

Fires near this place

1,052 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,052 fires within 5 miles of Mount Read between 2000 and 2020, burning about 792 acres in total. 41 started naturally. 167 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/undetermined613
Arson/incendiarism167
Smoking145
Natural41
Debris and open burning31
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Equipment and vehicle use16
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Recreation and ceremony8

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
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2014Smokingunder 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
Island Cottage Beach1.8 miles27
Rigney Bluff1.9 miles27
Crescent Beach2.1 miles27
Charlotte2.2 miles18
Ontario Beach2.6 miles18
Barnard2.9 miles32
Summerville3.1 miles18
Windsor Beach3.3 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 957896. 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.