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West Tiana, 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 11946. It stands on Tiana Creek. The Survey maps it on the Quogue quadrangle.

West Tiana 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 West Tiana, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of West Tiana, 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

144 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of West Tiana between 2000 and 2019, burning about 83 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 18 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/undetermined101
Arson/incendiarism18
Natural5
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1

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
7 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Suffolk 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 West Tiana: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
East Quogue PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
East Quogue Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Tiana in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2021Tornado (EF0)West Tiana$300,000A National Weather Service Storm Survey Team in coordination with Suffolk County Fire Rescue and Emergency Services confirmed an EF0 Tornado in the Hampton Bays to North Sea area of Suffolk County. A narrow tornado likely touched down near Tiana Circle, perhaps coming in as a waterspout off of Shinnecock Bay and downing several small pines in a northeasterly direction.||The tornadic circulation likely moved northeast across Smith Creek, with the magnitude of tree damage increasing as it touched down near Mill Race Road. From that point, a 35 yd. wide path of hardwood trees was observed to be either uprooted and laying in a |northeast direction, snapped at the trunk, or having large branches sheared off, continuing northeast through Columbia Street and Washington Avenue, to Hudson Street and Sherman Avenue, and then up to Lynncliff Road and Palo Alto Drive. In addition, minor roof and siding damage was observed for a few houses along this path. This included a homeowner on Hudson Street reporting that a screen door was pulled off the rear of their home and tossed 50 yards northeast of their home as well as a heavy wrought iron table and large gas grill picked up and pinned against their fence.|In addition, a homeowner on Lynncliff Road reported their roof shingles standing on edge as the tornadic circulation came through.||Thereafter, the tornadic circulation likely crossed the Eastern half of Shinnecock Bay, with an intermittent 35 yd. width path of mainly hardwood tree damage skipping along|Peconic Road and Montauk Highway, before likely crossing Shinnecock Hills Golf Course|and a heavily wooded area to the northeast. The tornadic circulation likely dissipated after producing tree damage on Marys Lane, east of North Sea Rd. in North Sea. No visible damage was noted or reported to the northeast of this location, including the Southampton Youth Sports Center.||Based on radar velocity signatures and damage orientation in relation to the general northeast motion of the parent storm, the damage survey above is determined to be EF0 Tornadic damage with winds of 70 to 85 mph.
February 2016Thunderstorm WindWest Tiana-A gust of 69 mph was measured at the mesonet location at Shinnecock Light.

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
Tiana0.9 miles27
Rampasture1.0 miles27
Springville1.0 miles27
Hampton Bays1.5 miles27
Ponquogue2.1 miles27
East Quogue2.4 miles27
Newtown2.5 miles29
Squiretown2.6 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 Q122548572The 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 970882. 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.

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.