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.
Then and now
1900 to 1985The 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.


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
Christman Bird and Wildlife Sanctuarylisted 1970
Delanson Historic Districtlisted 1984
Jenkins Houselisted 1984
Population over time
2 figuresDelanson 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 377 | |
| 2020 | 335 | -42 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 21 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.
- 1900 USGS Berne quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1903 USGS Berne quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
- 1944 USGS Gallupville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1946 USGS Gallupville quadrangle1:31680
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
92 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 49 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 17 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 26 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 16 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 15 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 12 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 1 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 1 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 July 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:
Storms near this place
6 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delanson | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delanson | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delanson | - | 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 2011 | Flash Flood | Delanson | - | The firehouse in Delanson flooded. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delanson | - | Trees and wires were reported down due to strong thunderstorm winds in Delanson. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Delanson | - | Nickel size hail was reported in Delanson. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quaker Street | 0.7 miles | 21 | |
| Duane | 2.2 miles | 25 | |
| Duanesburg | 3.1 miles | 25 | |
| Duane Lake | 4.3 miles | 26 | |
| Braman Corners | 4.7 miles | 25 | |
| Eaton Corners | 5.2 miles | 25 | |
| Mariaville Lake | 6.3 miles | 25 | |
| Mariaville | 6.4 miles | 25 |
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 Delanson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3458165 | 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 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.








