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Millbrook Heights, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Washington town. It lies in ZIP code area 12545. It lies near Platt Hill. The Survey maps it on the Millbrook quadrangle.

Millbrook Heights within Dutchess County

Then and now

1899 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Millbrook Heights, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Millbrook Heights, surveyed 1899

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 29 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

162 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Millbrook Heights between 1993 and 2020, burning about 200 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined86
Debris and open burning28
Arson/incendiarism19
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
8 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2003Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 September 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 August 2011Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Millbrook Heights: 13 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Pleasant Valley QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Pleasant Valley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Baldwin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Baldwin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Frank S. Fanelli Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Frank S. Fanelli Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mountain Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Mountain Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Route 199 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Route 82 Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Dutchess 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
South Millbrook1.0 miles29
Millbrook1.7 miles29
Verbank2.6 miles32
Washington Hollow2.6 miles29
Verbank Village2.7 miles32
Mabbettsville3.4 miles29
Hoxie Corner3.6 miles32
Littlerest3.7 miles29

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 Q122596800The 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 957289. 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.