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Harlemville, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hillsdale town. It lies in ZIP code area 12075. The Survey maps it on the Chatham quadrangle.

Harlemville within Columbia County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Harlemville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Harlemville, surveyed 1903

On record in Harlemville

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

132 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Harlemville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 166 acres in total. 20 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/undetermined57
Debris and open burning20
Natural20
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 August 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2016Debris and open burning6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
29 July 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
28 July 2017Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Harlemville: 7 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Philmont PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Philmont Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Haight Limonite MineIronPast Producer
Haight Limonte MineIronPast ProducerLimonite
Haight Mine/Goodsell Bog Mn OccurrenceIron, ManganesePast ProducerResidual
Hillsdale Limonite MineIronPast Producer
Goodsell Bog Mn OccurrenceManganeseProducer
Goodsell Bog Mn OccurrenceManganesePast Producer
Palmer Bog Mn OccurrenceManganeseOccurrence
Palmer Bog Mn OccurrenceManganesePast Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harlemville in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
May 2025Heavy RainHarlemville-A trained spotter in the Town of Hillsdale reported 3.2 inches of rain as of 0935 AM EST. This spotter also reported that culverts are flooded and that debris and sediment is causing minor flooding on Pheasant Lane.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindHarlemville-Tree was downed on Rigor Hill Road near Pratt Hill Road.
June 2014Flash FloodHarlemville-Flash flooding from thunderstorm heavy rain was reported in the town of Hillsdale. A portion of Harlemville Road, off County Route 21, was washed out due to the flood waters.

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
Pulvers2.9 miles21
Philmont3.5 miles23
Mellenville4.1 miles21
Ghent4.2 miles23
Spencertown4.5 miles23
Martindale4.8 miles23
Arnolds Mill4.9 miles23
North Hillsdale5.2 miles20

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.

Wikidata item Q122595917The 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 952238. 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.