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Fishkill, New York

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Fishkill town. It lies in ZIP code area 12524. It stands on Clove Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wappingers Falls quadrangle. 2,166 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 220 feet above sea level.

Fishkill within Dutchess County

Then and now

1893 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fishkill, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Fishkill, surveyed 1893

On record in Fishkill

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 6 records

Population over time

2 figures

Fishkill fell from 2,171 to 2,166 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
20102,171
20202,166-5 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 36 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

489 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 489 fires within 5 miles of Fishkill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 721 acres in total. 45 started naturally. 78 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/undetermined225
Arson/incendiarism78
Smoking54
Natural45
Debris and open burning29
Equipment and vehicle use22
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Recreation and ceremony8
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
6 September 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Fishkill: 30 past producers, 7 producers, 1 occurrence. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Clay, Stone. 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
Hustis QuarryTitaniumOccurrence
Probably Borrow Pit of Limestone Or Unconsolidated MaterialStone, ClayPast Producer
Probably Serpentine Marble Rock Quarry No. Hk-022Stone, DimensionPast ProducerMarble
Graphite Mine No. Hk-019GraphitePast ProducerGraphite
Graphite Mine No. Hk-019GraphitePast Producer
Limestone Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Limestone Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Serpentine Marble QuarryMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Serpentine Marble QuarryMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Serpentine Marble QuarryMarble, DimensionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Storms near this place

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fishkill in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 18 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 tornado, 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
April 1995Thunderstorm WindFishkill$100,000no account filed
April 1995Thunderstorm WindEast Fishkill$100,000no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindFishkill$13,000no account filed
September 2003Tornado (F1)Fishkill$10,000A cold front spawned a line of heavy showers across eastern New York during the early morning hours of September 28. A cell broke loose from the line and became a super cell that spawned a tornado of F0-f! intensity across Fishkill, Dutchess County. The length was a little over a mile and the width varied greatly between 25 and 100 yards. Most of the damage was to trees, but some wires were blown down and a transformer blew up. Flying debris shattered a window in a home. No injuries were reported with this tornado.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindFishkill$10,000On the evening of May 9, a single cell thunderstorm became severe as it moved over Dutchess county. Wind gusts from the storm knocked large tree limbs and power lines down in the village of Fishkill.
August 1994Thunderstorm WindFishkill$5,000Severe thunderstorm winds downed trees in the Fishkill area late on the 28th of August. Lightning was responsible for damage to a porch in Binghamton and for starting a fire which caused serious damage to a vacant house in Freehold.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindEast Fishkill$5,000no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindFishkill$5,000no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindFishkill$4,000An isolated severe thunderstorm, which developed well ahead of a cold front downed trees and wires in Fishkill.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindFishkill$4,000no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindEast Fishkill$1,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindFishkill$1,000no account filed
June 1998HailFishkill$1,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindEast Fishkill-Tree and wires were downed on Palen Road near Hararigan Road resulting in a blocked road.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindEast Fishkill-A tree was downed on the Taconic State Parkway blocking the right northbound lane.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindEast Fishkill-Emergency dispatch reported trees down.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindFishkill-Wires were reported down on Route 9 in Fishkill as a result of thunderstorm winds.
June 2011HailEast Fishkill-Golf ball size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in East Fishkill.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindEast Fishkill-Trees were reported down in East Fishkill due to strong thunderstorm winds.
May 2008HailEast Fishkill-Nickel size hail was reported in East Fishkill.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindEast Fishkill-Trees were reported down in East Fishkill due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2005Flash FloodFishkill-L Street closed due to flooding.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindEast Fishkill-Trees were blown down.
May 2004HailFishkill-no account filed
May 2004HailFishkill-no account filed
May 1998HailFishkill-no account filed
July 1994HailEast Fishkill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dutchess 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
Brinckerhoff1.7 miles35
Glenham1.7 miles36
Birchwood Park1.9 miles36
Beacon Hills2.4 miles36
Groveville2.6 miles36
Wiccopee2.8 miles35
Brookside Senior Citizen Cooperative3.2 miles42
Swartoutville3.3 miles35

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 FishkillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2533908The 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 977519. 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.