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Sweyze, New York

28 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 11933. The Survey maps it on the Riverhead quadrangle.

Sweyze 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 Sweyze, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Sweyze, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 28 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

515 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 515 fires within 5 miles of Sweyze between 1993 and 2020, burning about 5,791 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 95 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/undetermined302
Arson/incendiarism95
Natural40
Equipment and vehicle use29
Smoking19
Recreation and ceremony12
Debris and open burning11
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNew York Forest RangersTOOL FIRE
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2004Missing 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 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2015Natural3.3 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Sweyze: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Riverhead Cement Block Company PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Roanoke Avenue PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Suffolk Cement Products PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
Lakewood Park0.2 miles28
Foxwood Village1.1 miles28
Glenwood Village1.2 miles28
Calverton1.4 miles28
Northampton2.6 miles28
Baiting Hollow2.9 miles28
Riverhead3.1 miles28
Pine Valley3.3 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.

Wikidata item Q122547442The 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 966930. 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.