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Brunswick Center, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Brunswick town. It lies in ZIP code area 12180. The Survey maps it on the Tomhannock quadrangle.

Brunswick Center 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 Brunswick Center, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Brunswick Center, surveyed 1893

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 28 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

977 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 977 fires within 5 miles of Brunswick Center between 1993 and 2020, burning about 669 acres in total. 58 started naturally. 209 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/undetermined526
Arson/incendiarism209
Debris and open burning93
Natural58
Smoking39
Equipment and vehicle use25
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rensselaer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Brunswick Center: 12 past producers, 11 producers, 1 plant. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Bloating Material. 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
CohoesBloating MaterialProducerSedimentary
Troy PlantPerlitePlant
Cohoes Clay PitClayPast Producer
North Troy Clay PitClayProducer
North Troy Clay PitClayPast Producer
Troy Clay PitClayProducer
Campbell Mountain QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Campbell Mountain Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Quackenkill Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary
Quackenkill Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rensselaer County

Storms near this place

8 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brunswick Center in 8 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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
July 2021Flash FloodBrunswick Center$200,000There were several reports of roads flooded or washed out in the Brunswick area, including Moonlawn Road.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindBrunswick Center$1,000A couple of wires were downed in the vicinity of North Troy and Brunswick.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBrunswick Center-There were several reports of trees and wires down in Center Brunswick.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindBrunswick Center-Numerous large trees and limbs were reported down.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindBrunswick Center-Powerlines, a power pole, and large tree limbs were reported down.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindBrunswick Center-A large tree was downed on Hoosic Road in Brunswick as a result of thunderstorm winds.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindBrunswick Center-A tree and wire were reported down in Brunswick Center due to strong thunderstorm winds.
May 2017HailBrunswick Center-no 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
Eagle Mills2.0 miles30
Sycaway2.2 miles32
Clums Corner2.4 miles28
Frear Park3.1 miles32
Cropseyville3.2 miles30
Brunswick3.2 miles30
Haynersville3.3 miles28
Lansingburgh3.4 miles31

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 Q122553416The 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 944972. 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.