Pleasant Brook, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Roseboom town. It lies in ZIP code area 13320. It stands on Snyder Creek. The Survey maps it on the Westford quadrangle.

Pleasant Brook within Otsego County

Then and now

1907 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pleasant Brook, surveyed 1985

Topographic sheet of Pleasant Brook, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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.

1907 USGS Cooperstown quadrangle1:62500
1909 USGS Cooperstown quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1943 USGS Westford quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1945 USGS Westford quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

17 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Brook between 2006 and 2016, burning about 21 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Debris and open burning	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Arson/incendiarism	2

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
22 September 2016	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
28 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
20 May 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
10 May 2015	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.1 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 April 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
28 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.4 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otsego 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
Roseboom	1.9 miles	18
Maple Valley	2.5 miles	18
South Valley	2.9 miles	17
Five Points	3.7 miles	18
Middlefield	4.5 miles	18
Gothicville	4.8 miles	17
Westford	4.9 miles	18
Center Valley	5.0 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 970486. 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.