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Desbrough Park, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wolcott town. It lies in ZIP code area 14590. It stands on Beaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the North Wolcott quadrangle.

Desbrough Park within Wayne County

Then and now

1902 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Desbrough Park, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Desbrough Park, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 20 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

41 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Desbrough Park between 2002 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Recreation and ceremony4
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1

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
12 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
30 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
29 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
29 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne 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 Desbrough Park: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
North of WolcottIronPast Producer
Highway Dept PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Highway Dept PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wayne 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
North Wolcott2.9 miles20
East Bay Park3.5 miles21
North Huron3.9 miles21
Furnace Village4.3 miles22
Rice Mill4.9 miles22
Huron5.4 miles23
Lummisville5.6 miles23
Wolcott5.7 miles22

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 Q122595904The 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 948348. 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.