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Shore Acres, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Southold town. It lies in ZIP code area 11952. It stands on Long Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mattituck Hills quadrangle.

Shore Acres within Suffolk County

Then and now

1904 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 79 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 1983
Topographic sheet of Shore Acres, surveyed 1904

On record in Shore Acres

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

9 surveys from 21 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

92 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Shore Acres between 2001 and 2020, burning about 31 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined60
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
13 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
11 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
20 August 2011Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shore Acres in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2015: 3 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2008Thunderstorm WindShore Acres$3,000Power lines were downed on Mattituck Road and Bayer Road.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindShore Acres$1,500Trees were reported down along Bailie Beach Road in Mattituck.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindShore Acres$1,500A large tree was reported blocking a road in the Sound Cliffs area East of Mattituck Inlet.

Every storm 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
Waterville1.0 miles21
Mattituck1.1 miles29
Laurel2.4 miles29
Cutchogue Station3.0 miles22
Cutchogue3.5 miles22
New Suffolk4.0 miles23
Jamesport4.0 miles29
Northville4.3 miles29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 965155. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.