Willow Beach, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Richmond town. It lies in ZIP code area 14471. It lies near Bray Gully. The Survey maps it on the Springwater quadrangle.

Willow Beach within Ontario County

Then and now

1902 to 1983

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 Willow Beach, surveyed 1983

Topographic sheet of Willow Beach, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 24 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.

1902 USGS Wayland quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Wayland quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1942 USGS Springwater quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1942 USGS Springwater quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Canandaigua quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

52 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Willow Beach between 1993 and 2020, burning about 69 acres in total. 5 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	21
Debris and open burning	15
Arson/incendiarism	7
Natural	5
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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
7 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
10 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
31 July 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
11 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 June 2017	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 June 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ontario 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
Canadice Corners	2.0 miles	24
West Canadice Corners	2.5 miles	24
Honeoye Park	2.6 miles	22
Honeoye	3.4 miles	22
Curtis Corner	3.8 miles	22
Gulick	4.3 miles	26
Boswell Corners	4.6 miles	26
Richmond Center	4.8 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 971335. 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.