Grahamsville, New York
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Neversink town. It lies in ZIP code area 12740. It stands on Red Brook. The Survey maps it on the Grahamsville quadrangle. 360 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 968 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1910 to 1986The 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.


On record in Grahamsville
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 4 records
C. Burton Hotellisted 2005
Grahamsville Historic Districtlisted 1979- Greenfield Preparative Meeting Houselisted 2010
- Levitz Family Farmlisted 2002
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 22 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.
- 1910 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1942 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:125000
- 1944 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Grahamsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Grahamsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
105 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Grahamsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 281 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 8 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 | 56 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 11 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 August 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 15 August 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 15 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 14 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 July 1993 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 29 July 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grahamsville in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 11 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grahamsville | $15,000 | A thunderstorm strengthened to severe levels as it moved across southern sections of the county during the early to mid morning hours. Trees were downed in and around Grahamsville around 840 am EDT. Just after 915 am, additional trees and wires were toppled in Lumberland township. |
| August 2018 | Flash Flood | Grahamsville | $10,000 | Flash flooding was surging water across a road and into the basement of a house near Main Street and River Road. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grahamsville | $10,000 | A line of severe thunderstorms moved across Sullivan County during the afternoon. A 64 mph wind gust was recorded in Grahamsville at 4:45 pm and trees were knocked down in Liberty at 5:15 pm EDT. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grahamsville | $10,000 | A cluster of severe thunderstorms moving across the county blew down trees and wires in Grahamsville at 8:33 pm EDT where a 61 mph wind gust was recorded by a skywarn spotter. In Monticello at around 9:00 pm EDT additional large trees were toppled. |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grahamsville | $9,000 | no account filed |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grahamsville | $2,500 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grahamsville | $2,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree, which landed on live wires and caught fire. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grahamsville | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grahamsville | $1,000 | A tree was blown down. |
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grahamsville | $500 | no account filed |
| October 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grahamsville | - | A tree was blown down. |
| July 2001 | Hail | Grahamsville | - | SKYWARN storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Grahamsville | - | Large hail accumulated 1 inch deep 5 miles north of Grahamsville. Also trees and wires were down along with some structural damage from thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grahamsville | - | Trees and wires down from thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Grahamsville | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Grahamsville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unionville | 1.0 miles | 22 | |
| Curry | 1.9 miles | 22 | |
| Neversink | 3.8 miles | 22 | |
| Claryville | 5.0 miles | 23 | |
| Hasbrouck | 5.3 miles | 22 | |
| Woodbourne | 6.5 miles | 22 | |
| Aden | 6.7 miles | 22 | |
| Bradley | 7.0 miles | 22 |
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 Grahamsville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5593444 | 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 951468. 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.











