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East Branch, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hancock town. It lies in ZIP code area 13756. It stands on Beaver Kill. The Survey maps it on the Fishs Eddy quadrangle. It stands 1,007 feet above sea level.

East Branch within Delaware County

Then and now

1920 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 66 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of East Branch, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of East Branch, surveyed 1920

On record in East Branch

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

17 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of East Branch between 1997 and 2016, burning about 12 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
2 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
12 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 May 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 May 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of East Branch: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Thompkins Bluestone Quarry.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Thompkins Bluestone Quarry.FlagstonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Branch in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2018: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 2014Thunderstorm WindEast Branch$10,000Trees were blown down.
January 2018FloodEast Branch-The county emergency manager reported a large ice jam at the confluence of the Beaver Kill and East Branch Delaware near East Branch. Water was flooding agricultural areas near the river and ice was being pushed upstream on the Beaver Kill.
June 2009HailEast Branch-Penny size hail lasted for about 5 minutes at the Buckhorn Lodge.
July 2009HailEast Branch-no account filed
June 2008HailEast Branch-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
Pacatacan (historical)0.0 miles23
Centerville1.8 miles18
Peakville2.0 miles24
Readburn2.7 miles18
Luzerne2.7 miles23
Harvard2.7 miles18
Fishs Eddy2.8 miles23
Long Flat3.4 miles18

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 East BranchAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740483The 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 948988. 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.