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Seagate, New York

43 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the borough of Brooklyn. It lies in ZIP code area 11224. It stands on Coney Island Creek. The Survey maps it on The Narrows quadrangle.

Seagate within Kings County

Then and now

1898 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Seagate, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Seagate, surveyed 1898

Compare 1898 against another survey:

On record in Seagate

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 1 record

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 surveys from 43 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

1,716 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,716 fires within 5 miles of Seagate between 1992 and 2020, burning about 761 acres in total. 147 started naturally. 130 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/undetermined1215
Natural147
Arson/incendiarism130
Smoking90
Debris and open burning43
Equipment and vehicle use37
Fireworks24
Recreation and ceremony14
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1

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 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresGateway National Recreation AreaPLUMB2
8 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kings County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Seagate: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
New Dorp MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kings 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
Coney Island0.8 miles36
West Brighton2.0 miles36
Bensonhurst2.0 miles36
Bath Beach2.0 miles43
Brighton Beach2.6 miles36
New Utrecht2.7 miles36
Gravesend2.8 miles36
Dyker Heights3.1 miles43

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 964729. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.