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Remsenburg, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Southampton town. It lies in ZIP code area 11960. It stands on Speonk River. The Survey maps it on the Eastport quadrangle.

Remsenburg within Suffolk County

Then and now

1903 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Remsenburg, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Remsenburg, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 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

215 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 215 fires within 5 miles of Remsenburg between 2000 and 2020, burning about 123 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 31 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/undetermined139
Arson/incendiarism31
Natural18
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
30 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 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 Suffolk County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Remsenburg in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2021: 1 lightning, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2010LightningRemsenburg2 hurtTwo men, ages 73 and 75, were struck by lightning at Cupsogue Beach near the Village of West Hampton Dunes.
November 2021Tornado (EF0)Remsenburg$300,000A National Weather Service Storm Survey Team in coordination with Suffolk County Fire Rescue and Emergency Services confirmed an EF0 Tornado in Remsenburg, NY to Westhampton, NY area. A narrow tornado of 35 yd. width likely touched down at the corner of Ring Neck Road and South Country Road and then continued northeast across Riverview and Crestview Drive, then continuing northeast over Brushy Neck Lane and Jagger Lane Court, up to the bend in Montauk Highway near East Ridge Court.|Several large hardwood trees were uprooted and laying in northeast direction along this path, snapped at the trunk or had large branches sheared, with collateral power line and power pole damage. Several smaller shrubs and young trees were also flattened to the ground. In addition, minor roof and siding damage was observed for several houses along this path. Thereafter the tornado likely skipped along continuing northeast across the cemetery at Station Road to the union of Hazelwood and Rodgers Avenue and South Perimeter Road, with the above describes damage being more intermittent.||The most extensive structural damage occurred at the end of the visible tornadic path at the Department of Public Works Salt Barn on South Perimeter Road on the south side|of Westhampton Gabreski Airport. The north facing reinforced cinder wall of the Salt Barn was blown out. Indications are the roof may have briefly lifted as south to southwest winds with the tornadic circulation blasted into the south facing opening, culminating in the north wall being blown out.||Based on radar velocity signatures and damage orientation in relation to the general northeast motion of the parent storm, the damage survey above is determined to be EF0 tornadic damage with winds of 70 to 85 mph.

Every storm 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
Speonk0.8 miles27
Eastport1.8 miles27
West Hampton Dunes2.2 miles27
Westhampton2.5 miles27
East Moriches2.8 miles18
Quiogue4.3 miles27
Center Moriches4.3 miles18
Bellview Beach4.4 miles18

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 RemsenburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7312226The 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 962377. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.