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Orienta, New York

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Mamaroneck town. It lies in ZIP code area 10543. It lies near Shootfly Island. The Survey maps it on the Mamaroneck quadrangle.

Orienta within Westchester County

Then and now

1897 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Orienta, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Orienta, surveyed 1897

On record in Orienta

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 3 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 34 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

282 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 282 fires within 5 miles of Orienta between 2000 and 2020, burning about 192 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 33 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/undetermined149
Smoking51
Arson/incendiarism33
Natural16
Recreation and ceremony12
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 September 2001Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Westchester 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
Shore Acres0.7 miles34
Mamaroneck0.8 miles34
Larchmont1.4 miles42
Greenhaven1.5 miles34
Harbor Heights2.0 miles34
Elmcroft Estates2.2 miles34
Harrison2.3 miles34
Sun Haven2.4 miles42

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 977379. 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.