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Elizabethtown, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Elizabethtown town. It lies in ZIP code area 12932. It stands on The Branch. The Survey maps it on the Elizabethtown quadrangle. 746 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 558 feet above sea level.

Elizabethtown within Essex County

Then and now

1894 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Elizabethtown, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Elizabethtown, surveyed 1894

On record in Elizabethtown

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

Population over time

2 figures

Elizabethtown fell from 754 to 746 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
2010754
2020746-8 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 28 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

73 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Elizabethtown between 1993 and 2020, burning about 202 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined26
Natural12
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersBALD MT FIRE
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use19 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
7 August 2018Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersLIGHTNING HILL
7 August 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2001Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
21 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Elizabethtown: 18 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Titanium, Metal, Iron, Vanadium. 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
Elizabethtown-Westport AreaIron, Titanium, Metal, VanadiumPast Producer
Little Pond MinesIron, Titanium, VanadiumPast Producer
Oak Hill DepositIron, Titanium, MetalPast Producer1810
Tunnel Mountain MinesIron, Titanium, VanadiumPast Producer
Gates MineIron, TitaniumPast Producer
Little Pond MinesTitanium, Metal, Iron, VanadiumOccurrence
Oak Hill DepositsIron, TitaniumPast Producer
Tunnel Mountain MinesTitanium, Metal, Iron, VanadiumOccurrence
Dickinson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lewis PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms near this place

10 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elizabethtown in 10 storm reports between 2005 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2024Flash FloodElizabethtown$200,000Dept. of Highways and Emergency Management reported several roads damaged and/or washed out in and around the Elizabethtown, NY area due to 3 to 5 inches of excessive rainfall. These included, but were not limited to Lincoln Pond Rd. and Route 9N between US 9 and Old Military Rd.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindElizabethtown$10,000Trees down along side of road near the intersection of Back road and Wood Hill highway.
October 2020HailElizabethtown$10,000Public reported up to golf ball size hail fell with minor damage to vehicles.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindElizabethtown$10,000Numerous trees down.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindElizabethtown$10,000no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindElizabethtown$5,000Several trees down.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindElizabethtown$2,000Trees and utility lines downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2005HailElizabethtown$1,000no account filed
June 2009HailElizabethtown-Nickel size hail reported.
July 2007HailElizabethtown-Nickel size hail reported.

Every storm recorded in Essex 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
New Russia3.8 miles28
Lewis4.3 miles23
Stowersville6.1 miles23
Wadhams7.0 miles31
Crowningshield8.3 miles23
Glenmore8.5 miles23
Westport8.5 miles31
Mineville9.3 miles28

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 ElizabethtownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3472829The 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 949484. 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.