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Airmont, New York

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Ramapo town. It lies in ZIP code area 10901. The Survey maps it on the Park Ridge quadrangle. 10,166 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 584 feet above sea level.

Airmont within Rockland County

Then and now

1891 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Airmont, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Airmont, surveyed 1891

Compare 1891 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Airmont grew from 8,628 to 10,166 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20108,628
202010,166+1,538 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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

1,305 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,305 fires within 5 miles of Airmont between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,468 acres in total. 60 started naturally. 154 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/undetermined664
Smoking229
Arson/incendiarism154
Recreation and ceremony73
Natural60
Equipment and vehicle use51
Debris and open burning37
Misuse of fire by a minor29
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Fireworks1
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2015Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2001Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2016Recreation and ceremony6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rockland 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 Airmont: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Graphite. 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
Suffern DepositGraphiteProspect
Suffern QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
McKee Bros Sand and Gravel IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Mount Ivy Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Mount Ivy Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Rockland County

Storms near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Airmont in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. 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 2025Flash FloodAirmont-Water rescue taking place on Van Orden Avenue in Suffern NY.
August 1999Heavy RainAirmont-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rockland 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
Suffern Park0.7 miles37
Tallman1.1 miles37
Suffern2.0 miles40
Antrim2.1 miles40
Montebello2.4 miles33
Monsey2.6 miles37
Kaser3.0 miles37
Viola3.0 miles33

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.

Wikipedia article on AirmontAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2210910The 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 979664. 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.