Brighton, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Richfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 13439. It lies near Gunset Hill. The Survey maps it on the Schuyler Lake quadrangle.

Brighton within Otsego County

Then and now

1907 to 1986

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 Brighton, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Brighton, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1907 USGS Winfield quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS Schuyler Lake quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1945 USGS Schuyler Lake quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

38 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Brighton between 1999 and 2018, burning about 36 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 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
Arson/incendiarism	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Debris and open burning	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1
Natural	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
3 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 July 1999	Smoking	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named
14 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 May 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.1 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otsego 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
Richfield	1.5 miles	17
Richfield Springs	2.5 miles	16
Dogtown	3.4 miles	17
Exeter Corner	6.0 miles	17
Schuyler Lake	6.0 miles	17
Huntly Corners	6.5 miles	16
Lidell Corners	7.3 miles	17
Taylortown	7.6 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 944744. 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.