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Sprout Brook, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Canajoharie town. It lies in ZIP code area 13317. It stands on Bowmans Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sprout Brook quadrangle.

Sprout Brook within Montgomery County

Then and now

1898 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sprout Brook, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Sprout Brook, surveyed 1898

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

45 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Sprout Brook between 2000 and 2020, burning about 71 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined15
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
21 September 2015Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 June 2008Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sprout Brook in 1 storm report in 2023: 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSprout Brook-A tree and wire was down near the intersection of Clinton Road and Route 163.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Van Deusenville0.5 miles20
Buel1.4 miles20
Hessville1.6 miles20
Salt Springville3.3 miles20
Freysbush4.2 miles18
Marshville4.4 miles18
Ames4.5 miles18
Keesler Corners4.6 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 966114. 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.