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Edmeston, New York

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Edmeston town. It lies in ZIP code area 13335. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Edmeston quadrangle. 592 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,355 feet above sea level.

Edmeston within Otsego County

Then and now

1910 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Edmeston, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Edmeston, surveyed 1910

On record in Edmeston

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

Population over time

2 figures

Edmeston fell from 657 to 592 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
2010657
2020592-65 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

43 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Edmeston between 2002 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined27
Natural7
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
29 September 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 June 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 May 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otsego County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Edmeston: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Belden PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this place

34 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edmeston in 34 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 23 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 4 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2007Thunderstorm WindEdmeston1 hurt, $3,000Several trees were blown down including a tree that fell on a motorcyclist.
May 2014Flash FloodEdmeston$25,000A road washout occurred along State Highway 20 near Edmeston.
June 1996Flash FloodEdmeston$25,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindEdmeston$15,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindEdmeston$15,000A thunderstorm strengthened to severe limits over northern sections of the county. The cell was responsible for downing trees and power lines in Edmeston shortly after 200 pm EDT. Several more trees were blown down in Richfield Springs thereafter.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindSouth Edmeston$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindEdmeston$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and wires.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindEdmeston$10,000Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindEdmeston$10,000A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm resulted in multiple trees and wires being knocked over throughout the county.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindWest Edmeston$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees across a road.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindWest Edmeston$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees across a road.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindEdmeston$5,000A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over trees.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindEdmeston$5,000Trees were blown down.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindEdmeston$5,000Trees were blown down.
June 2013Flash FloodSouth Edmeston$5,000Water was flowing over County Route 20 at Simmons Road.
June 2013Flash FloodSouth Edmeston$5,000Flooding occurred across numerous roads near the village of South Edmeston.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindSouth Edmeston$5,000Trees and wires down on a car.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindEdmeston$5,000no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindWest Edmeston$5,000no account filed
August 2023Flash FloodEdmeston$3,000Numerous roads were flooded in the area.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindEdmeston$3,000A thunderstorm developed over the region and quickly became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds which resulted in trees and wires being knocked over near the city of Edmeston.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindEdmeston$3,000Six trees were blown down on houses.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindEdmeston$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindSouth Edmeston$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree on Dutch Valley Road.
August 2023Flash FloodEdmeston$1,000Route 80 was flooded in several locations.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindEdmeston$1,000A few trees were blown down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindEdmeston$1,000Trees and wires were blown down.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindEdmeston$500no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindEdmeston-Trees down.
August 2001LightningEdmeston-Newspaper reports indicate that lightning struck a house but caused no significant damage.
August 2023HailEdmeston-no account filed
August 2023HailEdmeston-no account filed
May 2011HailSouth Edmeston-no account filed
June 2007HailEdmeston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otsego 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
Amblers Crossing2.0 miles17
Robinson Corners2.2 miles16
West Burlington3.0 miles16
Cardtown3.7 miles16
Barrett Corners4.0 miles16
South Edmeston4.0 miles17
North Edmeston4.1 miles16
Chapinville4.1 miles16

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 EdmestonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5338808The 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 949399. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.