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Brant Lake, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Horicon town. It lies in ZIP code area 12815. It lies near Bartonville Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Chestertown quadrangle.

Brant Lake within Warren County

Then and now

1897 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Brant Lake, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Brant Lake, surveyed 1897

On record in Brant Lake

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 29 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

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Brant Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 107 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined29
Debris and open burning14
Natural11
Arson/incendiarism10
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking5
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
6 September 2007Natural1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 September 2000Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2001Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
11 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 1997Natural3.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Brant Lake: 3 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Graphite, Sulfur-Pyrite, Mica, Feldspar, Quartz. 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
Chestertown OccurrenceMica, Feldspar, QuartzPast Producer1897, 1922
Owens Property DepositIronOccurrence
Potterville ProspectGraphite, Sulfur-Pyrite, MicaOccurrenceGraphite, Phlogopite, Pyrite
Town of Chester PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed OccurrenceGranite, Quartz, FeldsparOccurrence1911, 1975
Willis Brown Property DepositFeldspar, MicaProspect
Chestertown ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brant Lake in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 3 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 2011Flash FloodBrant Lake$12,600,000Numerous roads were closed due to flash flooding and damage from heavy rainfall from training thunderstorms in Thurman, Stony Creek, Warrensburg and Chestertown including the following: Mountain Road, High Street, River Road, Harrisburg Road, South Garnet Road, Combs Road (severe damage), Dippikill Road, Green Mansions Road, Stock Farm Road, and Route 9 between Warrensburg and Chestertown.||In Stony Creek, an elderly woman was rescued from her trailer alongside a creek off Murray Road; her home and another trailer were destroyed by the flood waters. Also, a man was rescued from the roof of his home on Warrensburg Road. Some residents of South Garnet Road were stranded in their homes and some students missed several days of school due to a washed out bridge. The Warrensburg Central School District had to reroute bus routes due to damaged roads. ||The Lake George Schroon Valley Resort flooded. Visitors to Camp DippiKill, a retreat owned by the University at Albany student association, were stranded as all access roads were reported washed out. A farm off near Mountain Road suffered flooding, no animals were harmed.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindBrant Lake$75,000Numerous trees were down, and multiple houses were damaged as a result of strong thunderstorm winds at Brant Lake.||A National Weather Service Storm Survey Team found evidence of straight line wind damage as a result of a macroburst, with damage consistent with maximum wind speeds of near 100 MPH. The damage swath was 5 miles long, and 1 mile wide, and occurred on the west and east sides of Brant Lake. The damage on the west side of the lake was more widespread than on the east side.||One large tree fell through the roof of a Palisades Road home, causing an estimated $75,000 in damage.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindBrant Lake$5,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBrant Lake$2,000no account filed
December 2023FloodBrant Lake$1,000Route 8 was reported closed due to flooding just past Palisades Road before getting to Brant Lake.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindBrant Lake-A 911 call center operator reported a tree down along Valentine Pond Road.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBrant Lake-A section of Route 8 between Schroon River Road and Tannery Road near the YMCA closed due to multiple downed trees.
July 2023HailBrant Lake-A trained weather spotter reported half dollar size hail near Brant Lake.
July 2023HailBrant Lake-A quarter size hail was reported near Brant Lake.
October 2019Flash FloodBrant Lake-Route 8 was closed in the town of Horicon between Duell Hill Road and Palisades Road due to flooding.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindBrant Lake-Trees and wires were downed.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindBrant Lake-A tree was down blocked a road.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBrant Lake-Trees and wires were reported down near Brant Lake due to strong thunderstorm winds.
September 2007HailBrant Lake-Quarter size hail was reported covering the ground in Brant Lake.
June 2005Flash FloodBrant Lake-State Route 8 flooded at Point O' Pines Camp.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBrant Lake-Trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Starbuckville1.5 miles26
South Horicon1.6 miles26
Chestertown3.2 miles26
Riverbank5.1 miles30
Pottersville5.3 miles26
Darrowsville5.4 miles25
Adirondack6.1 miles27
North Bolton7.2 miles30

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 944649. 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.