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Brainardsville, New York

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Bellmont town. It lies in ZIP code area 12920. It stands on Nay Brook. The Survey maps it on the Brainardsville quadrangle. It stands 1,342 feet above sea level.

Brainardsville within Franklin County

Then and now

1915 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Brainardsville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Brainardsville, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

31 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Brainardsville between 2003 and 2017, burning about 53 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 August 2005Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 July 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 July 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 June 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 June 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin 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 Brainardsville: 2 prospects, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Bannerhouse MineIronPast ProducerReplacement
Bannerhouse MineIronProspect
Bellons Magnetite ProspectIronProspect

Every working recorded in Franklin 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
Chateaugay5.3 miles16
Bellmont Center5.5 miles14
Thayer Corners7.2 miles14
Brayton Hollow7.6 miles14
Earlville7.8 miles17
Burke7.9 miles14
Burke Center8.8 miles14
Cooks Mill8.9 miles15

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 BrainardsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740174The 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 944604. 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.