Beerston, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Walton town. It lies in ZIP code area 13856. It stands on Beers Brook. The Survey maps it on the Walton West quadrangle.

Beerston within Delaware County

Then and now

1923 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 62 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Beerston, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Beerston, surveyed 1923

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1923 USGS Walton quadrangle1:48000
1923 USGS Walton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1925 USGS Walton quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Walton West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

44 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Beerston between 2003 and 2016, burning about 44 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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	25
Debris and open burning	10
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	2
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
5 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 August 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 August 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 July 2007	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 July 2012	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 Delaware County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beerston in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 1 heavy rain, 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2022	Tornado (EF1)	Beerston	$85,000	The National Weather Service in Binghamton NY confirmed with a \|storm survey, that a tornado moved through the Walton area on the \|evening of September 25th between 6:38 PM to 6:41 PM. During the \|survey, tornado damage was first noted along Walton Mountain Rd \|where trees fell in a convergent pattern. Talking to several \|residents, winds came from multiple directions, with lawn furniture\|and part of a deck railing blown northwest while trees in \|the back yard were blown down facing southwest. Sporadic tree \|damage was followed down to route 10 to an autoshop with some \|metal sheeting ripped off of the roof and thrown about a 100 \|yards. From there the damage picked back up across the West Branch\|of the Delaware River along S River Rd. Sporadic tree damage \|continued along the south shore of the river to just south of S \|river Rd with the worst tree damage occurring near the end of the \|tornado's track. Up until this section, the damage from the \|tornado was EF0. Many large trees were snapped or uprooted and \|fell in a cross stitch pattern for a section of forest that was \|about 300 yards long and 50 yards wide where the EF1 damage was \|found.
July 2008	Heavy Rain	Beerston	-	Rainfall of around 3.5 inches was measured from thunderstorms. National Weather Service doppler radar estimated that as much as 5 inches of rain fell in various small basins in the county during a three hour time period.

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
Pinesville	2.1 miles	17
Rock Rift	2.8 miles	18
Walton	3.5 miles	17
Colchester	5.1 miles	17
Cleaver	5.4 miles	17
Apex	6.1 miles	18
Loomis	6.4 miles	17
Harvard	7.5 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972213. 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.