Castorland, New York
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Denmark town. It lies in ZIP code area 13620. It stands on Negro Creek. The Survey maps it on the Carthage quadrangle. 334 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 741 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1902 to 1985The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresCastorland fell from 351 to 334 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 | 351 | |
| 2020 | 334 | -17 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 20 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.
- 1902 USGS Carthage quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Carthage quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1943 USGS Carthage quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1943 USGS Carthage quadrangle1:31680
- 1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
66 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Castorland between 2002 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 8 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 | 45 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 28 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 22 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 2 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 28 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 22 August 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 1 August 2012 | 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 Castorland: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harper Ferry Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Castorland in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Castorland | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Castorland | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Castorland | $8,000 | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Flash Flood | Castorland | $8,000 | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Castorland | $5,000 | Trees, wires, and telephone poles down north of Lowville. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Castorland | $5,000 | Thunderstorms developed during the afternoon and evening hours producing damaging winds and small hail. The thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines resulting in scattered power outages. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Castorland | $4,000 | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Castorland | $500 | A tree was reported down on a road in Castorland. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Naumburg | 1.3 miles | 18 | |
| Briggs Corner | 1.6 miles | 19 | |
| Denmark | 3.8 miles | 20 | |
| Beaver Falls | 4.4 miles | 18 | |
| Deer River | 5.0 miles | 20 | |
| New Bremen | 5.1 miles | 18 | |
| Forest City | 5.7 miles | 18 | |
| Harrisburg | 5.8 miles | 19 |
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 Castorland | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3335421 | 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 946006. 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.









