Gee Brook, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cincinnatus town. It lies in ZIP code area 13040. It stands on Gee Brook. The Survey maps it on the Cincinnatus quadrangle.

Gee Brook within Cortland County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Gee Brook, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Gee Brook, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1904 USGS Pitcher quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1943 USGS Cincinnatus quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1944 USGS Cincinnatus quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Norwich quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

43 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Gee Brook between 1998 and 2020, burning about 54 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
Debris and open burning	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Natural	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Fireworks	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 May 2012	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 May 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 April 2020	Recreation and ceremony	1.6 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cortland 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lower Cincinnatus	1.9 miles	16
Cincinnatus	2.6 miles	16
Willet	2.8 miles	15
Georgetown	3.1 miles	15
Texas Valley	3.3 miles	15
Taylor	4.2 miles	16
East Freetown	4.7 miles	16
Taylor Valley	6.1 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972530. 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.