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Brasher Falls, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Brasher town. It lies in ZIP code area 13613. It stands on Bell Brook. The Survey maps it on the Brasher Falls quadrangle. 674 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 289 feet above sea level.

Brasher Falls within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Brasher Falls, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Brasher Falls, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

On record in Brasher Falls

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

Population over time

2 figures

Brasher Falls grew from 669 to 674 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010669
2020674+5 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

103 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Brasher Falls between 2002 and 2020, burning about 95 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 32 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/undetermined45
Arson/incendiarism32
Debris and open burning10
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4

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
25 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
29 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Brasher Falls: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Elmer Randall PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Elmer Randall PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brasher Falls in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2015: 1 hail, 1 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
August 2015Thunderstorm WindBrasher Falls$5,000Trees and branches down on County route 49.
May 2007HailBrasher Falls-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Lawrence 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
Winthrop1.1 miles17
Skinnerville2.7 miles17
East Part3.4 miles17
Brasher Center4.2 miles17
Wagstaff Corner4.5 miles15
Stockholm Center4.5 miles17
Buckton4.8 miles19
North Lawrence5.2 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 Brasher FallsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8251681The 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 976018. 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.