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Brodhead, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Olive town. It lies in ZIP code area 12494. The Survey maps it on the West Shokan quadrangle.

Brodhead within Ulster County

Then and now

1903 to 1997

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 Brodhead, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Brodhead, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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

103 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Brodhead between 1993 and 2020, burning about 112 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined60
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking5
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 July 2000Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 July 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 July 1993Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
2 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Brodhead: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Nytralite Pit and PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Olive BankSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this place

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brodhead in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
October 2021Thunderstorm WindBrodhead-A tree and wires were downed at the intersection of Route 28A and Brodhead Road.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindBrodhead-Tree limbs were knocked down.
July 2005Flash FloodBrodhead-Route 23A closed due to flooding between Turner and Brodhead.

Every storm recorded in Ulster 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
Winchell1.9 miles26
West Shokan2.3 miles26
Olivebridge2.5 miles28
Davis Corners3.1 miles28
Shokan3.2 miles28
Ashokan3.9 miles28
Krumville4.1 miles28
Boiceville4.3 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 944810. 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.