Brooksburg, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Windham town. It lies in ZIP code area 12439. It lies near Black Dome Valley. The Survey maps it on the Hensonville quadrangle.

Brooksburg within Greene County

Then and now

1893 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Brooksburg, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Brooksburg, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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.

1893 USGS Durham quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Durham quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
1945 USGS Hensonville quadrangle1:24000
1946 USGS Hensonville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Hensonville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

108 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Brooksburg between 1993 and 2020, burning about 147 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 7 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	41
Debris and open burning	26
Natural	14
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Arson/incendiarism	7
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Other causes	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
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 September 2020	Natural	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
31 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene 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
Hensonville	1.0 miles	23
Maplecrest	2.1 miles	23
Windham	2.4 miles	21
East Windham	3.4 miles	23
Durso Corner	4.8 miles	23
North Settlement	5.1 miles	21
Hervey Street	5.2 miles	23
Cornwallville	5.2 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 944865. 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.