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Breakabeen, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fulton town. It lies in ZIP code area 12122. It stands on Keyser Kill. The Survey maps it on the Breakabeen quadrangle.

Breakabeen within Schoharie County

Then and now

1898 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Breakabeen, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Breakabeen, surveyed 1898

On record in Breakabeen

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

9 surveys from 22 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

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Breakabeen between 1992 and 2019, burning about 91 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined26
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural6
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1
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
8 September 1998Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
9 August 1997Debris and open burning4.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
7 August 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 June 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
7 June 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
25 June 2019Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schoharie County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Breakabeen: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Spring Street PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Schoharie County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Breakabeen in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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 1998Thunderstorm WindBreakabeen$15,000no account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBreakabeen-A tree was downed onto wires.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindBreakabeen-A tree was downed across the road.
March 2011FloodBreakabeen-Route 30 was closed for a time Friday afternoon, March 11th, due to flooding where it crosses the Schoharie Creek in the Town of Fulton. The river gauge on the Schoharie Creek at Breakabeen exceeded its flood stage of 11 feet Friday morning and crested late in the afternoon at 12.6 feet. It went below flood stage in the evening.

Every storm recorded in Schoharie 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
Fultonham3.1 miles22
West Fulton4.0 miles22
North Blenheim4.1 miles22
Owlsville4.2 miles22
Watsonville4.3 miles22
Mackey4.8 miles22
Broome Center5.2 miles21
Franklinton5.6 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 944669. 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.