Sodus Point, New York
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sodus town. It lies in ZIP code area 14555. It stands on First Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sodus Point quadrangle. 822 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 276 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1902 to 1985The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Sodus Point
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 3 records
LOTUS (schooner)listed 1990
Sodus Point Lighthouselisted 1976- Customs Houselisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresSodus Point fell from 900 to 822 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 900 | |
| 2020 | 822 | -78 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 21 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1902 USGS Sodus Bay quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
- 1943 USGS Sodus Point quadrangle1:31680
- 1953 USGS Sodus Point quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Syracuse quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
133 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Sodus Point between 2000 and 2020, burning about 116 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 31 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 | 76 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 31 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 29 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 21 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 2 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 18 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 15 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 13 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sodus Point: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salmon Creek | Iron | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idlewood On The Lake | 1.1 miles | 14 | |
| Lake Bluff | 2.5 miles | 21 | |
| Sunset View | 3.2 miles | 23 | |
| Wallington | 3.7 miles | 20 | |
| Bonni Castle | 3.7 miles | 23 | |
| Alton | 4.2 miles | 23 | |
| Sodus | 4.5 miles | 20 | |
| Resort | 4.7 miles | 23 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Sodus Point | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3458111 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 965624. 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.






