BlockPoint Peninsula, New York
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lyme town. It lies in ZIP code area 13693. The Survey maps it on the Chaumont quadrangle.
Then and now
1900 to 1985The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
On record in Point Peninsula
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 2 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Union Halllisted 1990 · 0.0 miles away
- United Methodist Churchlisted 1990 · 0.1 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1900 USGS Clayton quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Clayton quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1942 USGS Chaumont quadrangle1:31680
- 1954 USGS Kingston quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Chaumont quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Cape Vincent quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
47 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Point Peninsula between 2001 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined | 31 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 24 September 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 24 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 20 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 18 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 11 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 August 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adams Cove | 3.2 miles | 16 | |
| Herrick Grove | 3.9 miles | 16 | |
| Bayview | 4.0 miles | 17 | |
| Three Mile Bay | 5.3 miles | 16 | |
| Pillar Point | 5.5 miles | 20 | |
| Chaumont | 6.3 miles | 16 | |
| Boultons Beach | 6.6 miles | 20 | |
| Sackets Harbor | 6.7 miles | 20 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 960832. 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.