Meadowbrook, New York

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1902 1994

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.

• 1902 USGS Schunemunk quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
• 1930 USGS Schunemunk quadrangle1:48000
• 1930 USGS Schunemunk quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1935 USGS Schunemunk quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1947 USGS Cornwall quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Cornwall quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Middletown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Cornwall-on-Hudson quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 565 fires within 5 miles of Meadowbrook between 1993 and 2020, burning about 769 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 58 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Beaver Dam Lake
• Denniston
• Downey Farms
• West Cornwall
• Butter Hill Estates
• Firthcliffe

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Meadowbrook: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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.

Every working recorded in Orange County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972786. 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.