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.
Then and now
1904 to 1997The 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.


Compare 1904 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 26 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.
- 1904 USGS Piseco Lake quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS Piseco Lake quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
- 1908 USGS Piseco Lake quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Piseco Lake quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Gloversville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Piseco Lake quadrangle1:25000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Piseco Lake quadrangle1:25000
Fires near this place
1 since 2005Regional 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/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 May 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.6 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2014Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoffmeister | - | A couple of trees and wires were downed near Hoffmeister, one of which occurred on French Road. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoffmeister | - | Trees were downed on an unnamed road. |
| November 2019 | Flood | Hoffmeister | - | Route 8 was closed between Route 10 and the Herkimer County line due to flooding. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoffmeister | - | 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. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morehouseville | 3.0 miles | 24 | |
| Powley Place | 6.4 miles | 24 | |
| Higgins Bay | 9.8 miles | 26 | |
| Averys Place | 10.9 miles | 24 | |
| Shaker Place | 11.2 miles | 24 | |
| Piseco | 11.2 miles | 26 | |
| Rudeston | 11.4 miles | 26 | |
| Arietta | 14.5 miles | 24 |
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 Hoffmeister | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q48740291 | 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 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.











