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Blodgett Mills, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cortlandville town. It lies in ZIP code area 13045. It stands on Trout Brook. The Survey maps it on the Cortland quadrangle. 274 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,112 feet above sea level.

Blodgett Mills within Cortland County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Blodgett Mills, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Blodgett Mills, surveyed 1903

Population over time

2 figures

Blodgett Mills fell from 303 to 274 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
2010303
2020274-29 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 23 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

115 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Blodgett Mills between 2000 and 2020, burning about 163 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined56
Debris and open burning14
Smoking12
Arson/incendiarism12
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2014Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
1 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cortland County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Blodgett Mills: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Compagni PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mcconnell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Polkville Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Polkville Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cortland County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blodgett Mills in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2019Thunderstorm WindBlodgett Mills$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires on West River Road near Snyder Hill Road.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindBlodgett Mills$5,000Numerous trees were blown down around the town of Polkville.
September 2009HailBlodgett Mills-Nickle size hail fell in Blodget Mills.

Every storm recorded in Cortland 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
Pokeville1.6 miles23
McGraw2.6 miles23
Cortland3.7 miles23
Maybury Mills3.9 miles23
Loring Crossing4.1 miles22
Munsons Corners4.5 miles23
South Cortland5.1 miles23
Virgil5.4 miles23

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 Blodgett MillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5730290The 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 944270. 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.