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.
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 figuresDenmark 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,860 | |
| 2020 | 2,626 | -234 (-8%) |
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
74 since 1995Regional 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/undetermined | 46 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 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 |
| 18 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 July 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 July 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 4 July 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 24 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2007Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Denmark | $30,000 | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Denmark | $10,000 | Law enforcement reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds on Old State Road. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Denmark | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Denmark | $8,000 | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deer River | 2.1 miles | 20 | |
| Briggs Corner | 3.0 miles | 19 | |
| Castorland | 3.8 miles | 20 | |
| Harrisburg | 4.1 miles | 19 | |
| Clark Corners | 4.3 miles | 19 | |
| Naumburg | 4.7 miles | 18 | |
| Copenhagen | 4.8 miles | 19 | |
| Windecker | 7.1 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 Denmark | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1016303 | 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 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.









