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Patchogue Highlands, New York

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Brookhaven town. It lies in ZIP code area 11772. The Survey maps it on the Patchogue quadrangle.

Patchogue Highlands within Suffolk County

Then and now

1902 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Patchogue Highlands, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Patchogue Highlands, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 33 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

1,749 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,749 fires within 5 miles of Patchogue Highlands between 2000 and 2020, burning about 875 acres in total. 74 started naturally. 250 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/undetermined1285
Arson/incendiarism250
Natural74
Smoking43
Equipment and vehicle use30
Debris and open burning30
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Recreation and ceremony12
Fireworks4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWertheim National Wildlife RefugeNYWHR-FY20-WF-SAYVILLE 6
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Suffolk 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
North Patchogue1.0 miles33
Patchogue1.3 miles33
East Patchogue2.0 miles20
Holtsville2.5 miles33
Blue Point2.7 miles29
Medford2.8 miles33
Bayport3.3 miles29
Farmingville3.4 miles33

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 Q122542652The 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 959981. 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.