Brick House Corners, New York

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.

1905 1984

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.

• 1905 USGS Attica quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1949 USGS Attica quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Corfu quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
• 1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1984 USGS Corfu quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Brick House Corners between 1999 and 2020, burning about 84 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 14 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:

• Longwood
• Corfu
• Indian Falls
• Pembroke
• Pembroke Center
• Cookville

Every fire recorded in Genesee County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Brick House Corners: 7 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sulfur. 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 Genesee 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 944716. 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.