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Delanson, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Duanesburg town. It lies in ZIP code area 12053. The Survey maps it on the Gallupville quadrangle. 335 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 817 feet above sea level.

Delanson within Schenectady County

Then and now

1900 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Delanson, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Delanson, surveyed 1900

On record in Delanson

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

Delanson fell from 377 to 335 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
2010377
2020335-42 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Delanson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 88 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined49
Arson/incendiarism17
Natural9
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
23 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
16 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
1 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schenectady County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delanson in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1999Thunderstorm WindDelanson$25,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindDelanson$5,000no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindDelanson-Multiple trees were reported down at the intersection of U.S. Route 20 and State Route 395 in the town of Duanesburg due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2011Flash FloodDelanson-The firehouse in Delanson flooded.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindDelanson-Trees and wires were reported down due to strong thunderstorm winds in Delanson.
June 2007HailDelanson-Nickel size hail was reported in Delanson.

Every storm recorded in Schenectady 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
Quaker Street0.7 miles21
Duane2.2 miles25
Duanesburg3.1 miles25
Duane Lake4.3 miles26
Braman Corners4.7 miles25
Eaton Corners5.2 miles25
Mariaville Lake6.3 miles25
Mariaville6.4 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 DelansonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3458165The 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 948261. 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.