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Brantingham, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Greig town. It lies in ZIP code area 13312. The Survey maps it on the Brantingham quadrangle. It stands 1,253 feet above sea level.

Brantingham within Lewis County

Then and now

1905 to 1985

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 Brantingham, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Brantingham, surveyed 1905

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

42 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Brantingham between 1995 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined21
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 1995Smoking1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
1 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2010Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersPARTRIDGEVILLE ROAD
16 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 July 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersLYONSDALE
9 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 June 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 Lewis County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brantingham in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2010Thunderstorm WindBrantingham$8,000Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBrantingham$2,000Trees and wires down on Brantingham Road.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBrantingham$2,000Trees and wires were reported down.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindBrantingham$1,000A few trees downed in Brantingham.

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
Greig3.3 miles21
Otter Creek4.5 miles21
Fowlersville4.6 miles20
Lyonsdale4.9 miles20
Shuetown5.1 miles20
Kosterville5.5 miles20
Sperryville5.9 miles19
Lyons Falls5.9 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.

Wikidata item Q122540888The 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 944651. 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.