Brushton, New York
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Moira town. It lies in ZIP code area 12916. It stands on Stony Brook. The Survey maps it on the Brushton quadrangle. 443 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 420 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1915 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Population over time
2 figuresBrushton fell from 474 to 443 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 474 | |
| 2020 | 443 | -31 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1915 USGS Moira quadrangle1:62500
- 1917 USGS Moira quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1944 USGS Moira quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Brushton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Massena quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Massena quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
106 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Brushton between 2001 and 2020, burning about 116 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 24 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 | 55 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 24 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 28 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 21 September 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 20 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 17 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 9 July 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 7 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 6 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Brushton: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moira Deposit | Silica | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
13 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brushton in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brushton | $200,000 | Roof torn off working garage/shed in West Bangor. Numerous (hundreds) trees uprooted, snapped across Franklin county between Moria and Malone with greatest concentration in a 2-3 mile swath across Brushton, West Bangor with at least a dozen structures that sustained damage. NWS Storm survey suggests combination of straight-line winds and possible microburst with winds estimated at 85 mph. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brushton | $75,000 | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brushton | $20,000 | Trees and utility lines down. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brushton | $15,000 | Numerous trees down along Routes 7 and 8. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brushton | $15,000 | Numerous reports of trees down and light structural damage. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brushton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brushton | $2,000 | Tree and several large branches blocking North Woods road. |
| September 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brushton | $2,000 | Tree on wires on Delancy Avenue. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Brushton | - | Quarter size hail reported with damage to some local backyard gardens. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Brushton | - | Dime to quarter size hail reported. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Brushton | - | Penny size hail and small limbs knocked out of trees. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Brushton | - | Quarter to half dollar size hail reported. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Brushton | - | Numerous reports of half to one inch size diameter hail falling for five minutes or longer that accumulated several inches but drifted to one or two feet in spots near storm drains. ||Corn crops as well as some other agricultural crops were affected at peak harvest. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moira | 2.4 miles | 15 | |
| East Dickinson | 3.6 miles | 16 | |
| West Bangor | 4.6 miles | 16 | |
| South Bombay | 4.7 miles | 15 | |
| Alburg | 5.1 miles | 15 | |
| North Bangor | 6.0 miles | 16 | |
| Dickinson | 6.3 miles | 15 | |
| Bangor | 6.3 miles | 16 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Brushton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3452941 | 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 944982. 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.









