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Branchport, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Jerusalem town. It lies in ZIP code area 14418. It lies near Guyanoga Valley. The Survey maps it on the Pulteney quadrangle. It stands 741 feet above sea level.

Branchport within Yates County

Then and now

1903 to 1983

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 Branchport, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Branchport, surveyed 1903

On record in Branchport

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 4 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

104 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Branchport between 1994 and 2020, burning about 81 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined53
Debris and open burning23
Arson/incendiarism13
Smoking5
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony2

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 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
12 September 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
31 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 August 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yates County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Branchport: 6 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. 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
C.M.Russell WellSaltPast Producer
Botsford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Botsford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Botsford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Botsford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Champlin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Champlin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jerusalem PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Nicolo PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Yates County

Storms near this place

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Branchport in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 7 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flood. 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
May 2014Flash FloodBranchport$400,000Several creeks were flowing out of their banks, and water was flowing over some roads in the area.
August 2014Flash FloodBranchport$125,000Several roads had water flowing across them in the Branchport and Guyanoga areas. Some roads were washing out and impassable, forcing closures and detours in the region.
July 2015Flash FloodBranchport$50,000There were numerous reports of road flooding and closures in the Town of Jerusalem.
August 2014Flash FloodBranchport$50,000Numerous road washouts were reported in the area.
May 2014Flash FloodBranchport$35,000A small stream was out of it's banks and flooding a building that was damaged by flooding earlier in the week.
August 2021Flash FloodBranchport$15,000Numerous roads were flooded to the northwest of Branchport. Some washouts were reported with debris on the road.
July 2017Flash FloodBranchport$8,000Flash flooding had caused debris to collect on several roads in the area.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBranchport$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires.
April 2017FloodBranchport$1,000Ponded water was reported on West Lake Road.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindBranchport-Minor damage to a vineyard
June 2014HailBranchport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yates 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
Guyanoga1.9 miles21
Bluff Point2.9 miles22
Keuka Park3.5 miles22
Willow Grove4.5 miles22
Crosby4.6 miles22
Friend4.7 miles21
Italy Hill5.0 miles21
Yatesville5.1 miles21

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 BranchportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4956448The 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 944621. 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.

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.