Callicoon, New York
25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Delaware town. It lies in ZIP code area 12723. It stands on Callicoon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Callicoon quadrangle. 206 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 846 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1920 to 1992The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1920 against another survey:
On record in Callicoon
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 5 records
Callicoon Methodist Church and Parsonagelisted 1993
Callicoon National Banklisted 1994
St. James Church and Rectorylisted 1993
St. Joseph's Seminarylisted 1993- Callicoon Downtown Historic Districtlisted 2016
Population over time
2 figuresCallicoon grew from 167 to 206 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 167 | |
| 2020 | 206 | +39 (+23%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 25 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1920 USGS Long Eddy quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1921 USGS Long Eddy quadrangle1:48000
- 1923 USGS Long Eddy quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1943 USGS Honesdale quadrangle1:125000
- 1944 USGS Long Eddy quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Callicoon quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Honesdale quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Callicoon quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
91 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Callicoon between 1999 and 2020, burning about 85 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined | 62 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 26 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 2 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 2 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 11 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 1 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 22 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 22 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Callicoon: 1 producer. All of them 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Town of Delaware Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
14 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Callicoon in 14 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 3 hail, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2011 | Flood | Callicoon | $300,000 | Moderate flooding occurred along the Delaware River near Callicoon, NY. The river gauge located near Callicoon crested at 14.34 feet at 5:15 PM on September 8, 2011. |
| September 2012 | Flash Flood | Callicoon | $50,000 | Widespread flash flooding was occurring. Callicoon Creek was reported out of its banks in Jeffersonville with 1 to 2 feet of water covering several roads. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Callicoon | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused widespread damage to tree and power lines in Callicoon and Jeffersonville, both in the town of Callicoon. |
| October 2021 | Flash Flood | Callicoon | $5,000 | Numerous roads were flooded. Water rescues in progress. |
| February 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Callicoon | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Callicoon | $2,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree and wires. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Callicoon | $1,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked a tree down across the roadway at Route 97 and Viaduct Road. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Callicoon | $1,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto the road. |
| October 2021 | Flood | Callicoon | $1,000 | Moderate flooding occurred on the Delaware River at Callicoon. The river crested at 13.68 feet at midnight on October 27th. Flood stage is 12 feet at this location. At 13 feet, flooding reaches the parking lot of the bank and the lower part of the gas station parking lot near the bridge in Callicoon. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Callicoon | - | Trees and wires down from thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Callicoon | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Callicoon | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Callicoon | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Flood | Callicoon | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hortonville | 1.4 miles | 25 | |
| Upper Beechwood | 3.6 miles | 21 | |
| Hankins | 3.6 miles | 25 | |
| Lower Beechwood | 3.9 miles | 21 | |
| East Cochecton | 4.2 miles | 22 | |
| Cochecton | 4.2 miles | 22 | |
| North Branch | 4.4 miles | 21 | |
| Pleasant Valley | 4.4 miles | 25 |
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 Callicoon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3826296 | The 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 945476. 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.












