Brookman Corners, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Minden town. It lies in ZIP code area 13339. The Survey maps it on the Fort Plain quadrangle.

Brookman Corners within Montgomery County

Then and now

1898 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Brookman Corners, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Brookman Corners, surveyed 1898

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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.

1898 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1944 USGS Fort Plain quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1946 USGS Fort Plain quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

44 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Brookman Corners between 2002 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined	26
Arson/incendiarism	10
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
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
18 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 August 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
28 May 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
9 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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 Brookman Corners: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Sheldon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	St. Johnsville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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
Hallsville	1.7 miles	18
Keesler Corners	2.5 miles	18
Fordsbush	3.0 miles	18
Freysbush	3.4 miles	18
Hessville	3.6 miles	20
Valley Brook	3.7 miles	18
Charlesworth Corners	4.0 miles	18
Salt Springville	4.1 miles	20

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 Q122549540

The 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 944853. 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.