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Park of Edgewater, New York

43 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the borough of the Bronx. It lies in ZIP code area 10465. It stands on Hammond Creek. The Survey maps it on the Flushing quadrangle.

Park of Edgewater within Bronx County

Then and now

1891 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Park of Edgewater, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Park of Edgewater, surveyed 1891

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 43 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

1,772 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,772 fires within 5 miles of Park of Edgewater between 2000 and 2020, burning about 422 acres in total. 114 started naturally. 92 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/undetermined1264
Natural114
Smoking108
Arson/incendiarism92
Recreation and ceremony75
Equipment and vehicle use48
Debris and open burning47
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1

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 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bronx 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 Park of Edgewater: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
National Gypsum/ Bronx MillGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Bronx 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
Throgs Neck0.5 miles43
Locust Point0.6 miles43
Silver Beach0.8 miles43
Eastchester Bay0.9 miles43
Schuylerville1.0 miles43
Country Club1.3 miles43
Middletown1.7 miles43
Spencer Estates1.7 miles43

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 Q122568027The 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 959866. 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.