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Brainard, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Nassau town. It lies in ZIP code area 12123. It stands on Black Brook. The Survey maps it on the East Chatham quadrangle. It stands 679 feet above sea level.

Brainard within Rensselaer County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Brainard, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Brainard, surveyed 1903

On record in Brainard

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

132 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Brainard between 1992 and 2020, burning about 167 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined58
Debris and open burning29
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural12
Smoking8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2009Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 July 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rensselaer County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brainard in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2017: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
July 2017Thunderstorm WindBrainard-A tree was downed due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2014HailBrainard-Quarter size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in East Nassau.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindBrainard-A tree and power pole was downed and across Route 66 in East Nassau due to thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Rensselaer 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
East Nassau0.9 miles30
Hoag Corners4.2 miles30
Nassau5.4 miles30
Rosecrans Park5.6 miles30
Morey Park5.7 miles30
Braeside5.9 miles30
North Nassau6.0 miles30
West Stephentown6.1 miles36

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.

Wikipedia article on BrainardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q38249746The 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 944601. 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.