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Spring Brook Station, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Elma town. It lies in ZIP code area 14059. The Survey maps it on the Orchard Park quadrangle.

Spring Brook Station within Erie County

Then and now

1905 to 1984

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 Spring Brook Station, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Spring Brook Station, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

328 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 328 fires within 5 miles of Spring Brook Station between 2000 and 2020, burning about 125 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 32 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/undetermined200
Natural40
Arson/incendiarism32
Smoking24
Debris and open burning14
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2004Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Spring Brook Station: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Federal Crushed Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Federal Crushed Stone Quarry & MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Mauls PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Olivieri PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Orchard Park PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Erie County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Brook Station in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 1 flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2017FloodSpring Brook Station$10,000Cazenovia Creek at Ebenezer crested at 12.29 feet at 5:15 AM on the 6th (Flood Stage is 10 feet).
April 2025Thunderstorm WindSpring Brook Station$2,000Trees and wires downed.

Every storm recorded in Erie 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
Blossom1.4 miles21
Spring Brook1.5 miles21
East Seneca1.7 miles21
Elma2.3 miles21
Elma Center2.4 miles21
New Ebenezer3.5 miles21
Jamison Road3.9 miles19
Ebenezer3.9 miles25

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 Q122553640The 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 966062. 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.