South Ferry Hills, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Shelter Island town. It lies in ZIP code area 11964. It lies near Shelter Island. The Survey maps it on the Greenport quadrangle.

South Ferry Hills 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 South Ferry Hills, surveyed 1983

Topographic sheet of South Ferry Hills, surveyed 1904

On record in South Ferry Hills

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.

Smith-Ransome Japanese Bridgelisted 2018 · 0.3 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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.

1904 USGS Shelter Island quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1947 USGS Greenport quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Greenport quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS New Haven quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

64 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of South Ferry Hills between 1995 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	7
Arson/incendiarism	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
2 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.9 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
4 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
4 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
3 August 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Long Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex	MORT95-11

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Montclair Colony	1.6 miles	22
Shelter Island	1.8 miles	22
Silver Beach	2.0 miles	22
North Haven	2.4 miles	22
Westmoreland	2.8 miles	22
Bay Point	3.0 miles	22
Shelter Island Heights	3.2 miles	22
Redwood	3.4 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.

Wikidata item Q34850213

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 973875. 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.