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Spring Creek Towers, New York

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the borough of Brooklyn. It lies in ZIP code area 11239. It stands on Fresh Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brooklyn quadrangle.

Spring Creek Towers within Kings County

Then and now

1889 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 106 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 Creek Towers, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Spring Creek Towers, surveyed 1889

On record in Spring Creek Towers

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 37 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

2,822 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,822 fires within 5 miles of Spring Creek Towers between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,864 acres in total. 160 started naturally. 195 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/undetermined2113
Arson/incendiarism195
Natural160
Smoking108
Debris and open burning71
Misuse of fire by a minor66
Equipment and vehicle use57
Recreation and ceremony33
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Fireworks5
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresGateway National Recreation AreaFOUNTAIN1
9 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresGateway National Recreation AreaCREEK19
9 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresGateway National Recreation AreaPLUMB2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kings County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Spring Creek Towers: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Iron. 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
D Smith Steel/ Brooklyn, N.Y.IronUnknown
N L Industries/ Brooklyn. N.Y.LeadUnknown
Roosevelt Metal/ Brooklyn, N.Y.LeadUnknown

Every working recorded in Kings 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
Canarsie1.1 miles37
East New York1.3 miles37
Paerdegat1.9 miles37
Marcus Garvey Village1.9 miles37
City Line2.0 miles37
Cypress Hills2.1 miles37
Broadway Junction2.2 miles37
Brownsville2.3 miles37

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 Q122546466The 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 2437261. 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.