Altamont, New York

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1900 1985

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 4 records

• Delaware and Hudson Railroad Passenger Stationlisted 1971
• Hayes Houselisted 1973
• Lainhart Farm Complex and Dutch Barnlisted 2001
• Hiram Griggs Houselisted 2010

Altamont fell from 1,720 to 1,675 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.

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.

• 1900 USGS Berne quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1903 USGS Berne quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1944 USGS Altamont quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1946 USGS Altamont quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
• 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
• 1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Altamont between 2001 and 2020, burning about 107 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 24 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Meadowdale
• Voorheesville
• Dunnsville
• Carmen Courts
• East Township
• Fort Hunter

Every fire recorded in Albany County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,092 specimens collected within 10 miles of Altamont between 1811 and 1975: 1,221 Animalia, 468 Fungi, 373 Plantae, 11 Protozoa, 9 Chromista, 6 Unrecorded, 4 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C. Frederick, A. A. Heller, A. Sherf and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Cephalozia media Lindb.	1898	Charles H. Peck	near Albany
	Coniothyrium Corda, 1840	1899	not recorded
	Corticium evolvens (Fr.) Fr.	1900	unknown	Altamont
	Carex vestita Willd.	1811	P. D. Knieskern	Near Schenectady.
	Quercus rubra L.	1843	Pearson, I.
	Solanum dulcamara L.	1844	Pearson, J.	Schenectadiæ, Nov. Ebor. [=Schenectady, New York].
	Spergula arvensis L.	1844	Pearson, J.	Schenectadiæ, Nov. Ebor. [=Schenectady, New York].
	Vicia sativa subsp. nigra Ehrh.	1844	Pearson, J.	Schenectadiæ, Nov. Ebor. [=Schenectady, New York.]
	Alismatales	1845	Pearson, J.	Schenectadiæ, Nov. Ebor. [=Schenectady, New York].
	Silene noctiflora L.	1846	Pearson, J.	Prope Schenectadiam, Nov. Ebor. [=Near Schenectady, New York].
	Iris versicolor L.	1855	Pearson, I.
	Quercus alba L.	1855	Pearson, I.

All 2,092 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Altamont: 5 producers, 3 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Albany County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Altamont in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 lightning, 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.

Every storm recorded in Albany County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 942397. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.