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Sayville Heights, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Islip town. It lies in ZIP code area 11782. The Survey maps it on the Sayville quadrangle.

Sayville Heights within Suffolk County

Then and now

1902 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sayville Heights, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Sayville Heights, surveyed 1902

On record in Sayville Heights

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 4 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 29 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

1,113 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,113 fires within 5 miles of Sayville Heights between 2000 and 2020, burning about 530 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 113 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/undetermined882
Arson/incendiarism113
Natural37
Equipment and vehicle use25
Smoking18
Debris and open burning14
Recreation and ceremony12
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWertheim National Wildlife RefugeNYWHR-FY20-WF-SAYVILLE 6
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2009Missing 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

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
Sayville1.0 miles29
Bayport1.3 miles29
West Sayville1.9 miles29
Blue Point2.0 miles29
Bohemia2.7 miles33
Patchogue3.3 miles33
Patchogue Highlands3.4 miles33
Oakdale3.5 miles30

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 Q122566828The 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 2130817. 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.