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Bryants Mill, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Bellmont town. It lies in ZIP code area 12969. It lies near Doctor Hill. The Survey maps it on the Ragged Lake quadrangle.

Bryants Mill within Franklin County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bryants Mill, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Bryants Mill, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

21 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Bryants Mill between 1999 and 2013, burning about 19 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

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
29 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNew York Forest RangersOLD INDIAN CAMP
25 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 July 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 July 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 May 2007Natural1.6 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 May 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Bryants Mill: 3 prospects, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Brewer Hill MineIronProspect
Ore Bed ProspectIronOccurrenceReplacement
Orebed ProspectIronProspect
Owl's Head MineIronPast ProducerReplacement
Owls Head MineIronProspect

Every working 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
Mountain View1.6 miles18
Porcaville3.7 miles18
Wolf Pond3.7 miles17
Owls Head4.3 miles18
Chasm Falls7.3 miles14
Duane Center8.0 miles16
Loon Lake9.8 miles17
Goldsmith10.3 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972273. 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.