Shore Acres, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Hamlin town. It lies in ZIP code area 14468. It stands on Cowsucker Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hilton quadrangle.

Shore Acres within Monroe County

Then and now

1899 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Shore Acres, surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of Shore Acres, surveyed 1899

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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.

1899 USGS Hamlin quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1934 USGS Hilton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1952 USGS Hilton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Hilton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

63 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Shore Acres between 2002 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 21 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	28
Arson/incendiarism	21
Natural	4
Debris and open burning	4
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
10 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.4 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
28 August 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Benedict Beach	1.1 miles	19
Wautoma Beach	2.2 miles	19
Sandy Harbour Beach	2.3 miles	19
North Hamlin	2.8 miles	19
Onteo Beach	3.2 miles	19
Walker	3.4 miles	19
Bartlett Corners	3.9 miles	19
Collamer	4.0 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 965154. 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.