New Britain, New York

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.

1888 1998

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.

• 1888 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1890 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:62500, 11 printings
• 1899 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1943 USGS Housatonic quadrangle1:125000
• 1946 USGS Canaan quadrangle1:24000
• 1947 USGS Canaan quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Canaan quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1973 USGS Canaan quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1973 USGS Canaan quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
• 1975 USGS Canaan quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1988 USGS Pittsfield West quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
• 1998 USGS Pittsfield West quadrangle1:25000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of New Britain between 1992 and 2020, burning about 145 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 8 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:

• West Lebanon
• Canaan
• Malden Bridge
• Queechy
• Rayville
• Riders

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Britain in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2024: 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.

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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 972832. 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.

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.