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Seaview, New York

30 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 11770. It lies near Money Island. The Survey maps it on the Bay Shore East quadrangle.

Seaview 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 Seaview, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Seaview, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 30 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

19 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Seaview between 2001 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined13
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1
Natural1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
10 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Island National SeashoreCARRINGTON TRACT 02
7 August 2014Smoking1.1 acresFire Island National SeashoreCARRINGTON TRACT 01
24 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresFire 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
Fire Island0.2 miles30
Ocean Beach0.4 miles30
Ocean Bay Park0.5 miles30
Robbins Rest0.9 miles30
Point o'Woods1.1 miles30
Atlantique1.2 miles30
Lonelyville1.4 miles30
Fair Harbor1.9 miles30

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 964754. 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.