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Speonk, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Southampton town. It lies in ZIP code area 11972. It stands on East River. The Survey maps it on the Eastport quadrangle.

Speonk 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 Speonk, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Speonk, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 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

244 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 244 fires within 5 miles of Speonk between 2000 and 2020, burning about 135 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 34 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/undetermined165
Arson/incendiarism34
Natural18
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
30 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
30 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2005Missing 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

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Speonk in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2021: 2 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
November 2021Thunderstorm WindSpeonk$2,000Large tree reported down on road.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindSpeonk$1,000Tree reported down on LIRR tracks near Speonk.

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
Remsenburg0.8 miles27
Eastport1.5 miles27
Westhampton2.1 miles27
West Hampton Dunes3.1 miles27
East Moriches3.1 miles18
Quiogue4.0 miles27
Suffolk Pines4.1 miles27
Riverside4.5 miles28

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 SpeonkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7576332The 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 965991. 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.