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Broome Center, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Gilboa town. It lies in ZIP code area 12076. It stands on Black Brook. The Survey maps it on the Livingstonville quadrangle.

Broome Center within Schoharie County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Broome Center, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Broome Center, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Broome Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined15
Debris and open burning10
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
14 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 August 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
7 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 July 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
11 June 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 May 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schoharie County

Storms near this place

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Broome Center in 1 storm report in 2006: 1 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 2006FloodBroome Center-Law enforcement personnel reported that State Route 145 was flooded from the Catskill Creek in the vicinity of Broome Center.

Every storm recorded in Schoharie 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
Mackey1.8 miles22
Flat Creek3.5 miles22
Owlsville3.6 miles22
Bates4.2 miles21
Livingstonville4.7 miles21
Franklinton4.7 miles21
North Blenheim5.0 miles22
Breakabeen5.2 miles22

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 Q122552442The 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 944893. 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.