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Rigney Bluff, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Greece town. It lies in ZIP code area 14612. It stands on Slater Creek. The Survey maps it on the Braddock Heights quadrangle.

Rigney Bluff within Monroe County

Then and now

1895 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rigney Bluff, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Rigney Bluff, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

544 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 544 fires within 5 miles of Rigney Bluff between 2000 and 2020, burning about 470 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 95 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/undetermined299
Arson/incendiarism95
Smoking79
Natural22
Debris and open burning16
Equipment and vehicle use12
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony4

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 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
30 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

8 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rigney Bluff in 8 storm reports between 2014 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
August 2014Thunderstorm WindRigney Bluff$20,000Broadcast media reported trees and wires down in Greece.
August 2014FloodRigney Bluff$15,000no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindRigney Bluff$1,000Trees were blown down onto Latta Road.
September 2024Flash FloodRigney Bluff-Flooding on Beach Avenue.
September 2024Funnel CloudRigney Bluff-Multiple online videos showing a funnel cloud.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindRigney Bluff-Large tree branch downed on Beach Avenue.
October 2021FloodRigney Bluff-Flooding was reported at Rumson and Marwood Roads.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindRigney Bluff-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Island Cottage Beach0.7 miles27
Ontario Beach1.5 miles18
Charlotte1.6 miles18
Crescent Beach1.6 miles27
Mount Read1.9 miles27
Summerville2.1 miles18
Windsor Beach2.4 miles18
White City2.7 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.

Wikidata item Q122549258The 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 962523. 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.