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Woodcliff Park, 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 11933. It sits by Friars Head. The Survey maps it on the Wading River quadrangle.

Woodcliff Park 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 Woodcliff Park, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Woodcliff Park, 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

247 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 247 fires within 5 miles of Woodcliff Park between 1993 and 2020, burning about 5,646 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 47 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/undetermined124
Arson/incendiarism47
Natural26
Equipment and vehicle use18
Smoking16
Debris and open burning8
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony2
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
9 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2015Natural3.3 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
4 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 1997Arson/incendiarism20 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
26 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Woodcliff Park: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Riverhead Cement Block Company PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Roanoke Avenue PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Suffolk Cement Products PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
Baiting Hollow0.9 miles28
Reeves Park2.2 miles28
Wildwood3.1 miles17
Centerville3.3 miles28
Foxwood Village3.4 miles28
Lakewood Park3.7 miles28
Sweyze3.8 miles28
Calverton4.2 miles28

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 Q122557758The 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 971624. 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.