Windsor Beach, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Irondequoit town. It lies in ZIP code area 14617. It stands on Genesee River. The Survey maps it on the Rochester East OE N quadrangle.

Windsor Beach within Monroe County

Then and now

1895 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Windsor Beach, surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of Windsor Beach, surveyed 1895

On record in Windsor Beach

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Genesee Lighthouselisted 1974 · 0.7 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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.

1895 USGS Ontario Beach quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Ontario Beach quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1912 USGS Ontario Beach quadrangle1:62500
1920 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1960 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

953 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 953 fires within 5 miles of Windsor Beach between 2000 and 2020, burning about 799 acres in total. 52 started naturally. 144 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	476
Smoking	178
Arson/incendiarism	144
Natural	52
Debris and open burning	33
Equipment and vehicle use	32
Misuse of fire by a minor	19
Power generation/transmission/distribution	12
Recreation and ceremony	7

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
9 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2016	Smoking	6.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Windsor Beach: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Dewitt Brothers Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe 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
Summerville	0.3 miles	18
White City	0.3 miles	18
Ontario Beach	0.8 miles	18
Rock Beach	1.0 miles	31
Charlotte	1.0 miles	18
Rigney Bluff	2.4 miles	27
Irondequoit	2.9 miles	31
Island Cottage Beach	3.1 miles	27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 971475. 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.