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Wildwood, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Riverhead town. It lies in ZIP code area 11792. The Survey maps it on the Wading River quadrangle.

Wildwood within Suffolk County

Then and now

1904 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wildwood, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Wildwood, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

138 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Wildwood between 2000 and 2020, burning about 303 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 25 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/undetermined79
Arson/incendiarism25
Natural13
Smoking8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony3
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
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2015Arson/incendiarism6.6 acresNew York Forest RangersNEVILLE FIRE
5 September 2015Natural3.3 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wildwood in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 flash flood. 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
August 2014Flash FloodWildwood-There was a partial collapse of the westbound lane of Hulse Landing Rd. between Route 25A and Sound Ave. in Wading River.

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
Wading River1.9 miles17
Woodcliff Park3.1 miles17
Baiting Hollow3.6 miles28
East Shoreham3.8 miles19
Shoreham5.1 miles19
Reeves Park5.3 miles28
Calverton5.4 miles28
Lakewood Park5.6 miles28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 971263. 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.