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Point o'Woods, New York

30 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 11706. The Survey maps it on the Bay Shore East quadrangle.

Point o'Woods 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 Point o'Woods, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Point o'Woods, surveyed 1902

On record in Point o'Woods

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

14 surveys from 30 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

20 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Point o'Woods between 2005 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined14
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1
Natural1

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
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
10 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Island National SeashoreCARRINGTON TRACT 02
7 August 2014Smoking1.1 acresFire Island National SeashoreCARRINGTON TRACT 01
24 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

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
Ocean Bay Park0.6 miles30
Fire Island1.0 miles30
Seaview1.1 miles30
Ocean Beach1.5 miles30
Robbins Rest2.0 miles30
Cherry Grove2.2 miles29
Atlantique2.3 miles30
Lonelyville2.6 miles30

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.

Wikipedia article on Point o'WoodsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7208103The 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 970489. 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.