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Shoreham, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Brookhaven town. It lies in ZIP code area 11786. The Survey maps it on the Middle Island quadrangle.

Shoreham within Suffolk County

Then and now

1904 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Shoreham, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Shoreham, surveyed 1904

On record in Shoreham

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

Fires near this place

416 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 416 fires within 5 miles of Shoreham between 2000 and 2020, burning about 285 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 97 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/undetermined254
Arson/incendiarism97
Smoking24
Natural20
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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 2005Missing 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 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2007Missing 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

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Shoreham: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Brookhaven Aggregates PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Brookhaven Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this place

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shoreham in 6 storm reports between 2006 and 2015: 4 hail, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2006LightningShoreham1 hurtLightning struck a 29-year-old woman while she was sitting with her family at Shoreham Town Beach. Her husband successfully performed CPR and revived her.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindShoreham$6,000Large trees were reported down across the intersection of Dartmouth and Valentine Roads.
May 2010HailShoreham-Quarter size hail was reported by a NWS employee.
May 2010HailShoreham-Penny size hail was reported by a NWS employee.
May 2010HailShoreham-Quarter size hail was reported by a trained spotter.
August 2015HailShoreham-no account filed

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
Rocky Point1.0 miles19
East Shoreham1.7 miles19
Sound Beach3.2 miles19
Wading River3.5 miles17
Ridge4.4 miles19
Miller Place4.7 miles19
Wildwood5.1 miles17
Middle Island5.3 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 965160. 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.

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.