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Castleton-on-Hudson, New York

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Schodack town. It lies in ZIP code area 12033. It stands on Vlockie Kill. The Survey maps it on the Delmar quadrangle. 1,477 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 151 feet above sea level.

Castleton-on-Hudson within Rensselaer County

Then and now

1893 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Castleton-on-Hudson, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Castleton-on-Hudson, surveyed 1893

On record in Castleton-on-Hudson

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Castleton-on-Hudson grew from 1,473 to 1,477 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
20101,473
20201,477+4 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 33 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

254 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 254 fires within 5 miles of Castleton-on-Hudson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 223 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 50 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/undetermined139
Arson/incendiarism50
Equipment and vehicle use18
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Debris and open burning13
Natural8
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
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 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2014Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rensselaer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Castleton-on-Hudson: 14 producers, 10 past producers, 1 plant. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Alcove QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Ravena Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Ravena QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Ravena Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ravenna Quarry & Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
South Bethlehem QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Beberwick PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
C.E. Wicks MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Haight PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kenneth Morris Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Rensselaer County

Storms near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Castleton-on-Hudson in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2013: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
August 2002LightningCastleton On Hudson1 hurtno account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindCastleton On Hudson$25,000no account filed
June 2013Thunderstorm WindCastleton On Hudson-Trees were downed due to thunderstorm winds in Castleton-on-Hudson. The trees damaged boat docks at a local boat club on the Hudson River.

Every storm recorded in Rensselaer 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
Stony Point2.3 miles31
Brookview2.3 miles31
South Schodack2.4 miles31
Schodack Landing2.9 miles25
Muitzes Kill3.1 miles21
Pine Haven Motor Home Park3.8 miles31
Schodack Center4.7 miles31
East Greenbush5.6 miles31

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 Castleton-on-HudsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3458130The 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 969967. 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.