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South Jamesport, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Riverhead town. It lies in ZIP code area 11970. It stands on East Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mattituck quadrangle. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

South Jamesport within Suffolk County

Then and now

1903 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 81 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 Jamesport, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of South Jamesport, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 29 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

330 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 330 fires within 5 miles of South Jamesport between 2000 and 2020, burning about 150 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 43 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/undetermined221
Arson/incendiarism43
Natural20
Recreation and ceremony14
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking10
Debris and open burning7
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
30 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Jamesport0.9 miles29
Riverhaven Park2.0 miles29
Laurel2.4 miles29
Red Creek2.5 miles29
Southport2.5 miles29
Aquebogue2.7 miles28
Flanders3.1 miles29
Northville3.2 miles29

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 South JamesportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q38249263The 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 965793. 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.