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Hoffmeister, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Morehouse town. It lies in ZIP code area 13353. It stands on Wilmurt Lake Outlet. The Survey maps it on the Hoffmeister quadrangle. It stands 1,857 feet above sea level.

Hoffmeister within Hamilton County

Then and now

1904 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hoffmeister, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Hoffmeister, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Hoffmeister in 2005, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined1

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
11 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this place

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hoffmeister in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 3 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
March 2025Thunderstorm WindHoffmeister-A couple of trees and wires were downed near Hoffmeister, one of which occurred on French Road.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindHoffmeister-Trees were downed on an unnamed road.
November 2019FloodHoffmeister-Route 8 was closed between Route 10 and the Herkimer County line due to flooding.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindHoffmeister-Trees and wires were reported down on French Road in the hamlet of Morehouseville in the town of Morehouse as a result of thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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
Morehouseville3.0 miles24
Powley Place6.4 miles24
Higgins Bay9.8 miles26
Averys Place10.9 miles24
Shaker Place11.2 miles24
Piseco11.2 miles26
Rudeston11.4 miles26
Arietta14.5 miles24

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 HoffmeisterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48740291The 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 952932. 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.