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Oklahoma Beach, New York

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Webster town. It lies in ZIP code area 14580. The Survey maps it on the Rochester East quadrangle.

Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma Beach, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Oklahoma Beach, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 31 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

646 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 646 fires within 5 miles of Oklahoma Beach between 2000 and 2020, burning about 467 acres in total. 59 started naturally. 78 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/undetermined292
Smoking141
Arson/incendiarism78
Natural59
Debris and open burning28
Equipment and vehicle use21
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Recreation and ceremony4

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 2020Debris and open burning1.2 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
9 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2016Smoking6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2016Smoking6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Oklahoma Beach: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dewitt Brothers Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oklahoma Beach in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2011Flash FloodOklahoma Beach$25,000no account filed
July 2009Thunderstorm WindOklahoma Beach$10,000no account filed
September 2024Funnel CloudOklahoma Beach-Multiple online reports with images of a funnel cloud.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Forest Lawn1.0 miles31
Sea Breeze1.4 miles31
German Village1.6 miles31
Newport2.3 miles31
Glen Edith2.4 miles31
West Webster2.6 miles26
Bay View3.0 miles31
Glen Haven3.3 miles31

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 Q122552593The 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 959243. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.