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Burke, New York

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Burke town. It lies in ZIP code area 12917. The Survey maps it on the Burke quadrangle. 160 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 863 feet above sea level.

Burke 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 Burke, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Burke, surveyed 1915

Population over time

2 figures

Burke fell from 211 to 160 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
2010211
2020160-51 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

85 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Burke between 1999 and 2020, burning about 84 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined40
Debris and open burning18
Natural9
Arson/incendiarism7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2

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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
10 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 August 2004Smoking1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
24 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 July 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Burke: 7 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone. 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
Northern Adriondack QuarryFlagstone, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lawrence PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Willis PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Adirondack Stone Inc QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1955, 1973
Adirondack Stone Inc QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1955, 1973
Adirondack Stone Inc QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1955, 1973
Franklin-Clinton Sandstone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1958, 1962
Franklin-Clinton Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1958, 1962
Northern Adirondack QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Northern Adriondack QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burke in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
May 2017Thunderstorm WindBurke$10,000Several trees and power lines down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBurke$10,000Several trees and power lines down.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindBurke$5,000Tree down on utility lines causing power pole to snap.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindNorth Burke$2,000Multiple trees down across East road in Burke.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindBurke$1,000no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindBurke-no account filed
April 1996HailNorth Burke-no account filed

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
Burke Center1.1 miles14
Thayer Corners1.9 miles14
Brayton Hollow3.4 miles14
Sun3.4 miles14
Bellmont Center4.3 miles14
Cooks Mill4.5 miles15
Chateaugay5.0 miles16
North Burke5.7 miles15

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 BurkeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3775687The 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 969931. 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.