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Water Mill, New York

23 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 11976. It stands on Calf Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sag Harbor quadrangle.

Water Mill 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 Water Mill, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Water Mill, surveyed 1903

On record in Water Mill

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

158 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Water Mill between 1992 and 2019, burning about 67 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined114
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural7
Smoking4
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 September 2013Missing 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

Storms near this place

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Water Mill in 1 storm report in 2001: 1 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
July 2001Thunderstorm WindWater Mill-As the severe thunderstorm continued southeast across Southampton, it produced high winds that damaged trees along its path from Mill Pond to Water Mill to Sagaponack. In Mill Pond, several large trees were blown down along Head of the Pond Road, and both upper and lower Seven Ponds Road. In Sagaponack, tree damage occurred near Daniels and Gibson Lanes, before the storm moved over the Atlantic coastal waters.

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
Cobb0.6 miles23
Flying Point1.1 miles23
West Mecox Village1.5 miles23
Hayground1.7 miles23
Deerfield1.9 miles23
Scuttlehole1.9 miles23
Hampton Park2.1 miles23
Southampton2.5 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 968893. 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.