Brasher Iron Works, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Brasher town. It lies in ZIP code area 13613. The Survey maps it on the Hogansburg quadrangle.

Brasher Iron Works within St. Lawrence County

Then and now

1915 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 79 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 Iron Works, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Brasher Iron Works, surveyed 1915

Compare 1915 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1915 USGS Moira quadrangle1:62500
1917 USGS Moira quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1944 USGS Moira quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Hogansburg quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Massena quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Massena quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Brasher Iron Works between 1992 and 2020, burning about 464 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 26 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/undetermined	33
Arson/incendiarism	26
Debris and open burning	14
Natural	7
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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
16 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
6 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
4 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
2 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
13 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	BRASHER FIRE 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Ironton	0.9 miles	16
Helena	2.7 miles	16
Brasher Center	4.8 miles	17
Rooseveltown	6.0 miles	17
North Lawrence	6.0 miles	15
Raquette River	6.6 miles	17
Brasher Falls	7.0 miles	17
Coteys Corner	8.0 miles	15

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 Q122599121

The 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 976019. 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.