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North Brookfield, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Brookfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 13418. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hubbardsville quadrangle. It stands 1,299 feet above sea level.

North Brookfield within Madison County

Then and now

1907 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of North Brookfield, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of North Brookfield, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

47 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of North Brookfield between 1994 and 2020, burning about 64 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined24
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural3
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
27 August 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
12 August 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
21 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 July 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 June 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 June 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
16 June 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of North Brookfield: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt, Natural Gas. 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
Letts No.1 WellSalt, Natural GasProspect

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Brookfield in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
August 2017Tornado (EF0)North Brookfield$50,000A tornado touched down in a field west of Mason Road in Brookfield|NY. The tornado knocked down a couple dozen trees, partially blew|roofs off two barns and ripped a roof off a greenhouse. One home|lost a few shingles. The tornado tracked east northeast and was on|the ground for a little less than one half mile. The width of the|tornado was about 150 yards. Maximum winds were estimated at 90 mph.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindNorth Brookfield$2,500Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto a car. There were no injuries reported.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindNorth Brookfield$1,000Trees and wires were blown down.
May 2013HailNorth Brookfield-Most of the hail was one inch in diameter.
May 2011HailNorth Brookfield-no account filed
July 2008HailNorth Brookfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
West Brookfield3.0 miles17
Guideboard3.5 miles17
Moscow Hill4.0 miles17
Hubbardsville4.4 miles17
Brookfield4.7 miles17
East Hamilton5.3 miles17
Sigby Corners5.5 miles17
Madison Center6.1 miles19

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.

Wikipedia article on North BrookfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740354The 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 958735. 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.