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Brisben, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Greene town. It lies in ZIP code area 13830. The Survey maps it on the Brisben quadrangle.

Brisben within Chenango County

Then and now

1902 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Brisben, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Brisben, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

34 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Brisben between 2003 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined16
Debris and open burning7
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
5 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 August 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 July 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 May 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 May 2006Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chenango County

Storms near this place

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brisben in 3 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBrisben$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires on Williams Road.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBrisben$10,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and power lines.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindBrisben-Emergency management reported trees and wires blown down by thunderstorm winds on Hobin, Ingram, Williams, and Wilcox roads.

Every storm recorded in Chenango 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
Buckley Hollow2.7 miles18
South Oxford3.6 miles16
Coventry4.1 miles17
Smithville Center4.1 miles18
Tyner4.6 miles18
Dibble Corner4.7 miles18
Adams Corner4.9 miles18
Greene5.3 miles15

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.

Wikidata item Q122550895The 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 944762. 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.

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.