BlockBranch, New York
25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Denning town. It lies in ZIP code area 12410. It lies near Wildcat Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Peekamoose Mountain quadrangle.
Then and now
1903 to 1997The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1903 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 25 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1903 USGS Slide Mountain quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Slide Mountain quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
- 1943 USGS Peekamoose Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Peekamoose Mountain quadrangle1:31680
- 1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS Peekamoose Mtn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Peekamoose Mtn quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
7 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Branch between 1999 and 2020, burning about 13 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
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 May 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 21 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | RED HILL KNOLLS FIRE |
| 15 May 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 April 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 4 April 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 28 April 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 11 November 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frost Valley | 2.2 miles | 23 | |
| Denning | 3.2 miles | 25 | |
| Ladleton | 4.5 miles | 23 | |
| Oliverea | 4.9 miles | 24 | |
| Bull Run | 5.7 miles | 25 | |
| Seager | 6.1 miles | 21 | |
| Peekamoose | 6.6 miles | 25 | |
| Sundown | 7.4 miles | 25 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 944617. 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.