Westmoreland, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Shelter Island town. It lies in ZIP code area 11965. It stands on West Neck Creek. The Survey maps it on the Greenport quadrangle.

Westmoreland within Suffolk County

Then and now

1904 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Westmoreland, surveyed 1983

Topographic sheet of Westmoreland, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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.

1904 USGS Shelter Island quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1947 USGS Greenport quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Greenport quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS New Haven quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

105 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Westmoreland between 1995 and 2020, burning about 63 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined	45
Natural	15
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Debris and open burning	12
Arson/incendiarism	7
Smoking	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
2 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 September 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
10 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Silver Beach	0.9 miles	22
Montclair Colony	1.2 miles	22
Reydon Shores	1.7 miles	22
Shelter Island	1.8 miles	22
Shelter Island Heights	1.9 miles	22
Beixedon Estates	2.3 miles	22
Cedar Beach	2.3 miles	22
Bayview	2.4 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 970931. 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.