Rainbow Shores, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It lies in ZIP code area 13142. The Survey maps it on the Pulaski quadrangle.

Rainbow Shores within Oswego County

Then and now

1895 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rainbow Shores, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Rainbow Shores, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 22 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.

1895 USGS Pulaski quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1943 USGS Pulaski quadrangle1:31680
1956 USGS Pulaski quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Pulaski quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

38 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Rainbow Shores between 1999 and 2019, burning about 22 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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	23
Smoking	3
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Natural	2

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
7 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
20 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 August 2016	Recreation and ceremony	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 July 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oswego 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sandy Pond	1.7 miles	19
Selkirk	2.8 miles	22
Bethel Corners	2.9 miles	22
Port Ontario	3.3 miles	22
The Elms	3.7 miles	19
Pulaski	4.9 miles	22
Daysville Corner	5.0 miles	22
Ramona Beach	5.3 miles	22

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 Q122560950

The 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 972984. 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.