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Hunter, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Hunter town. It lies in ZIP code area 12442. It lies near Shanty Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Hunter quadrangle. 429 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,588 feet above sea level.

Hunter within Greene County

Then and now

1892 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hunter, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Hunter, surveyed 1892

Compare 1892 against another survey:

On record in Hunter

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 11 records

Population over time

2 figures

Hunter fell from 502 to 429 between 2010 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
2010502
2020429-73 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 29 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

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Hunter between 1992 and 2018, burning about 94 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined20
Debris and open burning18
Recreation and ceremony7
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking4
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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
2 September 1993Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
19 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 August 1993Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
12 August 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
12 August 1997Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
22 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 July 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hunter in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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
June 2001Thunderstorm WindHunter$12,000no account filed
October 1995Thunderstorm WindHunter$5,000no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindHunter-Two trees were reported down in the town of Hunter.
October 2017Heavy RainHunter-Social Media reported 7 inches of heavy rainfall.
February 2006Thunderstorm WindHunter-A tree was blown down in Hunter during a thunderstorm.
July 1995HailHunter-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
South Jewett2.1 miles21
East Jewett4.2 miles29
Onteora Park4.4 miles29
Maplecrest4.6 miles23
Tannersville4.7 miles29
Spruceton4.9 miles21
Elka Park5.0 miles29
Edgewood5.1 miles29

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 HunterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2879796The 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 953467. 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.