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Greenwich, New York

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Greenwich town. It lies in ZIP code area 12834. It stands on Fly Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cambridge quadrangle. 1,651 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 374 feet above sea level.

Greenwich within Washington County

Then and now

1895 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Greenwich, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Greenwich, surveyed 1895

On record in Greenwich

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

3 figures

Greenwich fell from 1,902 to 1,651 between 2000 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
20001,902
20101,777-125 (-7%)
20201,651-126 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 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

155 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Greenwich between 1994 and 2020, burning about 158 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined78
Debris and open burning37
Arson/incendiarism14
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
21 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Greenwich: 6 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Dolomite, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. 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
Schuylerville DepositSilicaPast ProducerSedimentary
Peckham Materials Corp.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Stark Knob QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence1910, 1925
Bald Mountain DepositLimestone, GeneralOccurrenceLimestone
Middle Falls QuarryLimestone, General, DolomitePast ProducerDolomite, Limestone
Plant Number 31Limestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Unnamed OccurrenceLimestone, General, DolomitePast Producer1845
Unnamed OccurrenceLimestone, General, DolomitePast Producer1845
Unnamed OccurrenceLimestone, GeneralPast Producer1845

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

39 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenwich in 39 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 33 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 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
July 2001Thunderstorm WindGreenwich$30,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindGreenwich$25,000no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindGreenwich$23,000no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindGreenwich$14,000no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindGreenwich$11,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindGreenwich$8,000no account filed
July 2023Flash FloodGreenwich$5,000Part of State Route 29 was impassable due to reports of water coming across the roadway.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindGreenwich$5,000no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindEast Greenwich$5,000no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindGreenwich$3,000no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindGreenwich$2,000no account filed
September 1995Thunderstorm WindGreenwich$1,000A cold front crossed eastern New York during the mid morning hours of the 14th. Severe thunderstorms produced damaging winds which downed trees and wires across a few locations in Saratoga and Washington Counties.
August 2024Flash FloodGreenwich$500A local 911 call center reported flooding along Route 29 in Greenwich.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindGreenwich-A 911 call center operator reported a tree down north of Greenwich on Route 40.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindGreenwich-An emergency manager provided numerous reports of trees and wires down in Greenwich, impacting North Road, Christie Road, Kilburn Road, John Robertson Road, and Irwin Road.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindEast Greenwich-A tree and wires were downed on Nealy Lane in the Town of Jackson.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindEast Greenwich-A tree was downed on McDougal Lake Road near East Greenwich.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindGreenwich-A tree was downed on wires along Washington Street in the Village of Greenwich.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindGreenwich-Trees and wires were downed across County Route 49.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindNorth Greenwich-There were several reports of trees and wires down in the town of Greenwich.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindEast Greenwich-Trees and wires were reported down at Nealy Lane and Reafield Farm Road.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindGreenwich-Trees were reported down.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindGreenwich-A tree was downed blocking the roadway near Greenwich.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindGreenwich-Trees and wires were downed on Church Street and County Route 74 in the Village of Greenwich.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindEast Greenwich-Trees were downed on North Road, County Route 49 and Christie Road near the Hamlet of East Greenwich.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindEast Greenwich-Trees and wires were downed on McDougal Lake Road.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindEast Greenwich-A tree was downed on Route 29.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindGreenwich-Trees and wires were downed on Hegeman Bridge Road.
January 2019FloodGreenwich-Burch Hollow Road was closed between Burton Road and Easton Station Road due to flooding.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindGreenwich-Widespread trees and wires were downed.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindEast Greenwich-Trees were downed at the intersection of Route 49 and Irwin Road in East Greenwich due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindGreenwich-Multiple trees were reported down in Greenwich as a result of thunderstorm winds.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindNorth Greenwich-Trees and wires were reported down to strong thunderstorm winds about 4 miles north of Greenwich.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindGreenwich-Numerous trees were reported down in Greenwich due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2008HailGreenwich-Quarter size hail was reported near Greenwich during a thunderstorm.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindGreenwich-Several trees were reported down due to strong thunderstorm winds in Greenwich.
June 2005HailGreenwich-no account filed
April 2004Thunderstorm WindGreenwich-no account filed
June 1994HailGreenwich-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Middle Falls1.5 miles26
Center Falls2.2 miles27
Spraguetown3.1 miles27
Bald Mountain3.4 miles27
Archdale4.1 miles27
Battenville4.2 miles27
Clarks Mills4.2 miles26
North Greenwich4.7 miles27

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 GreenwichAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3452216The 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 951780. 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.