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Brewster Hill, New York

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Southeast town. It lies in ZIP code area 10509. It stands on Brewster Hill. The Survey maps it on the Brewster quadrangle. 1,924 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 617 feet above sea level.

Brewster Hill within Putnam County

Then and now

1892 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Brewster Hill, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Brewster Hill, surveyed 1892

Population over time

2 figures

Brewster Hill fell from 2,089 to 1,924 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
20102,089
20201,924-165 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 37 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

404 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 404 fires within 5 miles of Brewster Hill between 2001 and 2020, burning about 410 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 58 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/undetermined182
Arson/incendiarism58
Smoking45
Natural38
Debris and open burning32
Power generation/transmission/distribution17
Equipment and vehicle use12
Recreation and ceremony10
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Other causes3

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
9 September 2009Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Brewster Hill: 13 past producers, 4 prospects, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Copper, Sulfur, Sulfur, Iron, Copper. 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
Brewster MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Croton Magnetite Iron MinesIron, CopperPast Producer1880
Hobby Pyritiferous Ore OpeningIron, SulfurPast ProducerUnknown
Marble Rock Quarry No. 6kMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Marble Rock Quarry No. Gk-011Stone, DimensionPast Producer
Tilly FosterMolybdenumOccurrenceMagnetite, Molybdenite
Hobby Pyritiferous OreIron, SulfurProspect
Towners Pyrite DepositSulfurOccurrence
Croton - Theall Magnetite MineIron, Copper, SulfurPast Producer1880, 1883
Croton-Mc Collum Magnetite MineIron, Copper, SulfurPast Producer1843, 1880

Every working recorded in Putnam 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
Dykemans1.0 miles37
Sears Corners1.5 miles37
Gayville1.6 miles37
Sodom1.7 miles37
Doanesburgh (historical)1.8 miles37
Brewster Heights1.9 miles35
Brewster2.0 miles37
Steinbeck Corners2.2 miles37

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 Brewster HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3460874The 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 1867395. 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.