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Glasco, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Saugerties town. It lies in ZIP code area 12432. The Survey maps it on the Saugerties quadrangle. 2,013 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 151 feet above sea level.

Glasco within Ulster County

Then and now

1895 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 102 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Glasco, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Glasco, surveyed 1895

Compare 1895 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Glasco fell from 2,099 to 2,013 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
20102,099
20202,013-86 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 29 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

297 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 297 fires within 5 miles of Glasco between 1997 and 2020, burning about 256 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 49 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/undetermined137
Arson/incendiarism49
Smoking31
Debris and open burning22
Equipment and vehicle use16
Natural13
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Recreation and ceremony7
Fireworks4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes2
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
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
29 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2016Smoking6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Glasco: 13 producers, 8 past producers. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Limestone, General, Bloating Material. 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
Mt. MarionBloating MaterialProducerSedimentary
Saugerties Blue Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Saugerties Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Glasco Clay PitClayProducer
Glasco Clay PitClayPast Producer
Malden On Hudson Clay PitClayProducer
Malden On Hudson Clay PitClayPast Producer
Malden On Hudson Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary
Malden On Hudson Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mount Marion Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this place

7 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glasco in 7 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2023FloodGlasco$1,000Route 9W in Glenerie was reported flooded.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindGlasco-Trees and wires were downed on a vehicle with entrapment on Route 32.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindGlasco-A few trees were reported down in Glasco.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindGlasco-Wires were downed onto an unoccupied vehicle on Delaware Ave in Glasco.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindGlasco-Trees were reported down in Saugerties due to thunderstorm winds. A portion of U.S. Route 9W was closed due to a tree across the roadway.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindGlasco-Law enforcement reported at least 50 downed trees, and up to 12 power poles snapped due to strong thunderstorm winds near Glenerie. In addition, at least 5 homes sustained minor damage due to the fallen trees.||A National Weather Service storm survey team determined straight line winds from a microburst within a thunderstorm as the cause of the damage. The microburst encompassed a length and width of up to a mile. The straight line winds were estimated to be between 70 and 80 mph.||The damage included the area from just west of the northern tip of Glenerie Boulevard, extending east across the CSX railroad tracks and up a steep hill to North Drive, crossing Route 9W to Old Stage Road.||In addition to minor damage to homes, one mobile home and a few cars were badly damaged. A large tree also reportedly fell onto a freight train as it passed through the area, although there were no reports of injuries or fatalities.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindGlasco-Trees and wires down.

Every storm recorded in Ulster 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
Glenerie1.5 miles29
Flatbush2.1 miles29
Mount Marion2.1 miles29
Saugerties2.4 miles29
Mount Marion Park2.7 miles29
Glenerie Lake Park2.9 miles29
Ulster Landing3.2 miles31
Canoe Hill3.4 miles29

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 GlascoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3461847The 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 951155. 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.