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Brookview, New York

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Schodack town. It lies in ZIP code area 12033. It lies near Vandenburgh Hill. The Survey maps it on the East Greenbush quadrangle.

Brookview within Rensselaer County

Then and now

1893 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Brookview, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Brookview, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 31 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

257 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 257 fires within 5 miles of Brookview between 1992 and 2020, burning about 217 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 47 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/undetermined150
Arson/incendiarism47
Equipment and vehicle use19
Debris and open burning18
Natural7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rensselaer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Brookview: 7 producers, 5 past producers, 1 plant. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
East Greenbush Clay PitClayProducer
East Greenbush Clay PitClayPast Producer
Powell and Minnock Shale PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Beberwick PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
C.E. Wicks MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Castleton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Haight PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kenneth Morris Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Kenneth Morris Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Route 20 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Rensselaer County

Storms near this place

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brookview in 1 storm report in 2000: 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
June 2000Flash FloodBrookview$30,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rensselaer 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
Stony Point1.6 miles31
South Schodack2.1 miles31
Castleton-on-Hudson2.3 miles33
Schodack Center2.5 miles31
Pine Haven Motor Home Park2.7 miles31
East Greenbush3.6 miles31
Sherwood Park4.4 miles31
Muitzes Kill4.5 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 944885. 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.