Deposit, New York
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sanford town. It lies in ZIP code area 13754. It stands on Bone Creek. The Survey maps it on the Deposit quadrangle. 1,387 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 991 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1924 to 1985The same ground, surveyed 61 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Deposit
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
- First Presbyterian Church of Depositlisted 2019
Population over time
2 figuresDeposit fell from 1,663 to 1,387 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 | 1,663 | |
| 2020 | 1,387 | -276 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 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.
- 1924 USGS Deposit quadrangle1:62500
- 1926 USGS Deposit quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1944 USGS Deposit quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Deposit quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
48 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Deposit between 1995 and 2020, burning about 92 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 | 23 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 25 June 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 19 June 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 5 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 5 May 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.1 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 May 2007 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 May 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deposit in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | Flash Flood | Deposit | $15,000 | A residence was flooded on Meadowlark Ln. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deposit | $15,000 | Cabins were damaged by strong thunderstorm winds. These winds also downed power poles and snapped trees. |
| May 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Deposit | $10,000 | The tornado initially touched down close to a campground off of H. Decker Road. The tornado then traveled northeast across a small lake. Minor tree damage was observed. An eyewitness reported seeing a swirling mass of debris which was mainly composed of leaves. He also saw a picnic table get lifted up and thrown about 50 yards into the lake. The tornado tracked to the northeast and lifted close to Blueberry Lake in Sanford township. There was no significant damage reported to structures from this tornado. Most of the damage from this tornado was to trees. |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deposit | $8,000 | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deposit | $3,000 | Trees were blown down. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deposit | $3,000 | Trees were blown down. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deposit | $2,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree on wires onto Nelson Frank Road. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deposit | $2,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto wires on Old NY-17. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deposit | $1,000 | A thunderstorm moved into the area Monday afternoon and quickly became severe. The thunderstorm knocked a tree over which took down electric wires. |
| July 2024 | Flash Flood | Deposit | - | Several motorists reported significant flooding on State Route 17 westbound near Exit 83. Oquaga Creek parallels this highway and was out of its banks. |
| June 2006 | Flood | Deposit | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| McClure | 3.2 miles | 15 | |
| Sanford | 4.2 miles | 15 | |
| Danville | 4.4 miles | 15 | |
| Gulf Summit | 6.1 miles | 17 | |
| North Sanford | 6.7 miles | 15 | |
| Howes | 7.3 miles | 17 | |
| Mount Carmel | 8.0 miles | 17 | |
| Cascade Valley | 9.0 miles | 17 |
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 Deposit | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3460735 | 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 948336. 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.








