Brasie Corners, New York

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1912 1985

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.

• 1912 USGS Hammond quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1944 USGS Hammond quadrangle1:62500
• 1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Hammond quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1951 USGS Pope Mills quadrangle1:24000
• 1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Pope Mills quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1985 USGS Gouverneur quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Brasie Corners between 2001 and 2020, burning about 59 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 7 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Rossie
• Ruby Corner
• Black Lake (historical)
• Cedars
• Elmdale
• Nelson Corner

Every fire recorded in St. Lawrence County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Brasie Corners: 18 past producers, 4 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Graphite, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in St. Lawrence County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brasie Corners in 1 storm report in 2008: 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.

Every storm recorded in St. Lawrence County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 976021. 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.