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Elk Brook, New York

24 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 12776. It stands on Whirling Eddy Brook. The Survey maps it on the Horton quadrangle.

Elk Brook 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 Elk Brook, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Elk Brook, surveyed 1920

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 24 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

15 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Elk Brook between 2005 and 2016, burning about 23 acres in total. 1 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
Fireworks1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1

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
12 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 May 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 May 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
13 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot 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 Elk Brook: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 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
East Branch QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
East Branch QuarryFlagstoneProducer

Every working 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
Chiloway0.8 miles24
Burnwood1.9 miles24
Horton1.9 miles24
Peakville2.3 miles24
Long Flat2.9 miles18
Butternut Grove3.6 miles22
Goulds3.7 miles24
Gregorytown4.1 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.

Wikidata item Q122562604The 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 972444. 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.