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Swedetown Village, New York

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Oyster Bay town. It lies in ZIP code area 11714. The Survey maps it on the Huntington quadrangle.

Swedetown Village within Nassau County

Then and now

1901 to 1984

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Swedetown Village, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Swedetown Village, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 32 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

965 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 965 fires within 5 miles of Swedetown Village between 1993 and 2020, burning about 437 acres in total. 80 started naturally. 119 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/undetermined587
Arson/incendiarism119
Smoking85
Natural80
Equipment and vehicle use26
Power generation/transmission/distribution21
Debris and open burning20
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Recreation and ceremony4

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nassau 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 Swedetown Village: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Thorium. 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
Atomergic Chemetals/Plainview, N.Y.ThoriumUnknown
Controlled Castings/Plainview, N.Y.ThoriumUnknown

Every working recorded in Nassau 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
Plainview1.2 miles32
Bethpage1.3 miles33
Old Bethpage1.4 miles32
Hicksville2.4 miles35
Farmingdale2.8 miles33
Levittown3.1 miles29
Plainedge3.1 miles33
Locust Grove3.5 miles35

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 Q122567053The 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 2091837. 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.