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Valentines Beach, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. The Survey maps it on the Cicero quadrangle.

Valentines Beach within Onondaga County

Then and now

1895 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Valentines Beach, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Valentines Beach, surveyed 1895

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

118 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Valentines Beach between 2000 and 2020, burning about 69 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 27 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/undetermined52
Arson/incendiarism27
Debris and open burning10
Natural8
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
6 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
30 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2018Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
18 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Onondaga 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
Cicero Center1.1 miles29
Lower South Bay1.5 miles29
Brown Center1.7 miles29
Sandy Bay2.7 miles29
Forest Beach3.5 miles29
Cicero4.7 miles29
Schepps Corners5.7 miles29
Collamer6.3 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.

Wikidata item Q122541243The 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 968351. 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.