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Carthage, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wilna town. It lies in ZIP code area 13619. It lies near Wind Island. The Survey maps it on the Carthage quadrangle. 3,236 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 768 feet above sea level.

Carthage within Jefferson County

Then and now

1902 to 1985

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 Carthage, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Carthage, surveyed 1902

On record in Carthage

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Carthage fell from 3,747 to 3,236 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
20103,747
20203,236-511 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

97 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Carthage between 2001 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined79
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
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
30 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
26 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Carthage: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, Calcium, Iron, Sodium, Titanium, Water, Free. 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
Carthage Region AnorthositeAluminum, Calcium, Iron, Sodium, Titanium, Water, FreeProspectSurface
Cole Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

13 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carthage in 13 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 12 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
June 2002Thunderstorm WindWest Carthage$15,000no account filed
August 2017Thunderstorm WindCarthage$12,000Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down by thunderstorm winds.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindWest Carthage$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindCarthage$10,000Law enforcement reported trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindCarthage$10,000Law enforcement reported trees down.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCarthage$10,000no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindCarthage$10,000no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindCarthage$8,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCarthage$2,000Reports of multiple trees and wires down.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindCarthage$2,000A tree was downed onto power lines in the town of Wilna.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindCarthage$2,000Multiple trees were snapped and felled.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindWest Carthage$500A tree was reported down on Old Martin Road in the Town of Champion.
August 2024FloodWest Carthage-Road closed due to flooding in West Carthage.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
West Carthage0.4 miles20
Herrings3.9 miles18
Fargo4.1 miles18
Champion4.4 miles19
Deferiet5.6 miles18
Hubbard Crossing6.0 miles18
Cowan Corner6.2 miles18
Karter6.2 miles18

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 CarthageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q533728The 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 969965. 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.