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Brainard, New York

human settlement in United States of America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ38249746 ↗
Source-derived summary

Brainard is a hamlet in the town of in the Village of East Nassau, Rensselaer County, New York, United States. The community is located along U.S. Route 20 and New York State Route 66 5.2 miles (8.4 km) east-south east of the village of Nassau. Brainard has a post office with ZIP code 12024, which opened on April 7, 1881.

The community was named after David Brainerd, a Christian missionary to local Indians.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Brainard, New York” is human settlement in United States of America. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Brainard, York and human, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1881—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Brainard, York and human is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q38249746. Authority coordinates are 42.496, -73.512. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1881.

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This entry incorporates text from “Brainard, New York” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.