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Flatbrook, New York

43 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Canaan town. It lies in ZIP code area 12029. It lies near Deane Hill. The Survey maps it on the Canaan quadrangle.

Flatbrook within Columbia 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 Flatbrook, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Flatbrook, surveyed 1888

Compare 1888 against another survey:

On record in Flatbrook

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

22 surveys from 43 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

81 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Flatbrook between 1995 and 2020, burning about 92 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined48
Debris and open burning13
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 July 2001Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
25 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 July 2001Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
7 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 47 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 47 workings within 5 miles of Flatbrook: 29 past producers, 13 producers, 4 occurrences, 1 prospect. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Lead, Silver, Zinc. 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
Canaan Lead Silver MinesLead, Silver, ZincProducerReplacement Vein
Cheever MinesIron, ManganeseProducerGoethite, Limonite
Cone Limestone MineIron, Magnesite, ZincPast Producer1827
Gott-Mesick Bog Mn OccurrenceManganese, IronProducer
No 6 Quarry & Plnt Lane & SonStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Canaan Lead Silver MinesLead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Canaan Pb-Ag MinesLead, Silver, ZincPast ProducerVein
Gaston PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
John S Lane and Son IncLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Nolan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flatbrook in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2021: 2 hail, 2 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
June 2021Thunderstorm WindFlatbrook-Multiple trees were downed on Tunnel Hill Road.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindFlatbrook-A tree and wires were downed along Route 22 and Miller Road.
June 2011HailFlatbrook-Quarter size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Canaan Center.
August 2010HailFlatbrook-Quarter size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Canaan Center. Visibility was reported to be zero during the hail.

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
Canaan Center1.5 miles43
Queechy2.0 miles43
Canaan2.6 miles43
Red Rock4.5 miles23
Austerlitz5.1 miles43
New Concord5.3 miles21
East Chatham5.6 miles21
New Lebanon6.2 miles43

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 Q122543652The 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 950250. 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.