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Denmark, 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 13367. The Survey maps it on the Carthage quadrangle. 2,626 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,191 feet above sea level.

Denmark within Lewis County

Then and now

1902 to 1985

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Denmark, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Denmark, surveyed 1902

Population over time

2 figures

Denmark fell from 2,860 to 2,626 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
20102,860
20202,626-234 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

74 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Denmark between 1995 and 2020, burning about 72 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined46
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning7
Natural1

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
28 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
28 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2004Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 July 1995Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
24 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Denmark in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2017: 4 thunderstorm wind. 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
January 2008Thunderstorm WindDenmark$30,000no account filed
June 2017Thunderstorm WindDenmark$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds on Old State Road.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindDenmark$10,000no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindDenmark$8,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
Deer River2.1 miles20
Briggs Corner3.0 miles19
Castorland3.8 miles20
Harrisburg4.1 miles19
Clark Corners4.3 miles19
Naumburg4.7 miles18
Copenhagen4.8 miles19
Windecker7.1 miles19

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 DenmarkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1016303The 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 948303. 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.