Rock Ledge Beach, New York

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Carlton town. It lies in ZIP code area 14571. It stands on Oak Orchard Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kent quadrangle.

Rock Ledge Beach within Orleans County

Then and now

1897 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rock Ledge Beach, surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of Rock Ledge Beach, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1897 USGS Oak Orchard quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1949 USGS Kendall quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Kent quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Lockport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

49 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Rock Ledge Beach between 2002 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. 3 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	19
Smoking	10
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Debris and open burning	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
6 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
21 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
31 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
29 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orleans 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
Point Breeze	1.6 miles	14
Toms Landing	2.0 miles	14
Lakeside	2.2 miles	17
Kuckville	2.4 miles	17
Lakeside Park	2.5 miles	17
Baldwin Corner	2.7 miles	14
Sunset Beach	2.7 miles	17
Waterport Station	3.2 miles	14

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 Q122562672

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 962714. 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.