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Charlotteville, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Summit town. It lies in ZIP code area 12036. It lies near Wayman Hill. The Survey maps it on the Charlotteville quadrangle. It stands 1,604 feet above sea level.

Charlotteville within Schoharie County

Then and now

1904 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Charlotteville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Charlotteville, surveyed 1904

On record in Charlotteville

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

59 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Charlotteville between 1993 and 2017, burning about 84 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined24
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural6
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1

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 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2015Other causesunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
16 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 July 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 July 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schoharie County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Charlotteville in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood. The reports record 5 injuries. 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
July 1997Thunderstorm WindCharlotteville5 hurt, $100,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindCharlotteville$22,000no account filed
April 2022FloodCharlotteville$20,000Flooding occurred in multiple areas within Schoharie County including Seward, Richmondville, Cobleskill, Breakabeen and Gilboa, causing roads to close. Heavy rainfall led to a mudslide on Flat Creek Road near Gilboa.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindCharlotteville$13,000no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindCharlotteville$1,000A large tree was downed along Charlotte Valley Road near Charlotteville.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindCharlotteville-A couple of trees were down in the town of Summit near Clapper Hollow.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindCharlotteville-A silo was blown over at Stone Ridge Drive and Meade Road.
January 2010FloodCharlotteville-Widespread flooding was reported and significant runoff continued across Schoharie County.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindCharlotteville-Trees and wires were reported down in Charlotteville due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2006FloodCharlotteville-A trained spotter reported that a small bridge was flooded at Charlotteville.

Every storm recorded in Schoharie 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
Arabia1.7 miles17
Lutheranville3.0 miles17
Summit4.7 miles17
West Jefferson4.9 miles16
Jefferson5.3 miles17
East Jefferson5.3 miles17
Vorman Corners6.6 miles17
Eminence7.0 miles17

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 CharlottevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16890186The 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 946420. 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.

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.