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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.

Brushton within Franklin County

Then and now

1915 to 1994

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Brushton, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Brushton, surveyed 1915

Population over time

2 figures

Brushton 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.

YearPeople Change
2010474
2020443-31 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

106 since 2001

Regional 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/undetermined55
Arson/incendiarism24
Equipment and vehicle use11
Debris and open burning9
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
21 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
9 July 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
6 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Moira DepositSilicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

13 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBrushton$200,000Roof 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 1998Thunderstorm WindBrushton$75,000no account filed
May 2018Thunderstorm WindBrushton$20,000Trees and utility lines down.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindBrushton$15,000Numerous trees down along Routes 7 and 8.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindBrushton$15,000Numerous reports of trees down and light structural damage.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBrushton$5,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindBrushton$2,000Tree and several large branches blocking North Woods road.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindBrushton$2,000Tree on wires on Delancy Avenue.
July 2025HailBrushton-Quarter size hail reported with damage to some local backyard gardens.
June 2021HailBrushton-Dime to quarter size hail reported.
June 2012HailBrushton-Penny size hail and small limbs knocked out of trees.
June 2012HailBrushton-Quarter to half dollar size hail reported.
July 2010HailBrushton-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.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Moira2.4 miles15
East Dickinson3.6 miles16
West Bangor4.6 miles16
South Bombay4.7 miles15
Alburg5.1 miles15
North Bangor6.0 miles16
Dickinson6.3 miles15
Bangor6.3 miles16

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 BrushtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3452941The 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.