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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.

Callicoon within Sullivan County

Then and now

1920 to 1992

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Callicoon, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Callicoon, surveyed 1920

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

Population over time

2 figures

Callicoon 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.

YearPeople Change
2010167
2020206+39 (+23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 25 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

91 since 1999

Regional 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/undetermined62
Debris and open burning15
Natural6
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Town of Delaware PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

14 since 2000

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2011FloodCallicoon$300,000Moderate 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 2012Flash FloodCallicoon$50,000Widespread 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 2005Thunderstorm WindCallicoon$10,000Thunderstorm winds caused widespread damage to tree and power lines in Callicoon and Jeffersonville, both in the town of Callicoon.
October 2021Flash FloodCallicoon$5,000Numerous roads were flooded. Water rescues in progress.
February 2006Thunderstorm WindCallicoon$5,000no account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindCallicoon$2,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree and wires.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindCallicoon$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked a tree down across the roadway at Route 97 and Viaduct Road.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCallicoon$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto the road.
October 2021FloodCallicoon$1,000Moderate 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 2000Thunderstorm WindCallicoon-Trees and wires down from thunderstorm winds.
July 2014HailCallicoon-no account filed
May 2011HailCallicoon-no account filed
June 2009HailCallicoon-no account filed
June 2006FloodCallicoon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan 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
Hortonville1.4 miles25
Upper Beechwood3.6 miles21
Hankins3.6 miles25
Lower Beechwood3.9 miles21
East Cochecton4.2 miles22
Cochecton4.2 miles22
North Branch4.4 miles21
Pleasant Valley4.4 miles25

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 CallicoonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3826296The 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.