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Center Berlin, New York

40 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Berlin town. It lies in ZIP code area 12022. It lies near Green Brook Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Berlin quadrangle.

Center Berlin within Rensselaer County

Then and now

1888 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 110 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Center Berlin, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Center Berlin, surveyed 1888

Compare 1888 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

21 surveys from 40 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

43 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Center Berlin between 2000 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism7
Debris and open burning7
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 August 2011Arson/incendiarism4.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 June 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Center Berlin: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Jack Sweeney Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Jack Sweeney Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sweener PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rensselaer County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Center Berlin in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2019Thunderstorm WindCenter Berlin-A tree was downed onto wires on Bly Hollow Road.

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
Berlin2.2 miles40
Cherryplain2.3 miles40
Bucks Corner4.1 miles35
North Stephentown4.4 miles38
Taborton6.3 miles35
Petersburg6.3 miles40
East Poestenkill6.8 miles35
Stephentown Center7.0 miles36

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 Q122570302The 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 946186. 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.