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.
Then and now
1892 to 1997The 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.


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
Church of St. John the Evangelistlisted 2004
Harry Fischel Houselisted 2000
Hunter Mountain Fire Towerlisted 1997
Hunter Synagoguelisted 1999
IOOF Halllisted 2002
Frank D. Layman Memoriallisted 2003
St. Mary's of the Mountain Churchlisted 1999
Ulster and Delaware Railroad Stationlisted 1996- Alpine, Thelisted 2023
- Elka Park Historic Districtlisted 1993
- Onteora Park Historic Districtlisted 2003
Population over time
2 figuresHunter 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 502 | |
| 2020 | 429 | -73 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 29 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.
- 1892 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1893 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500
- 1899 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1903 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
- 1945 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1946 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
61 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 20 |
| Debris and open burning | 18 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 19 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 21 August 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 12 August 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 12 August 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 22 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 18 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 17 July 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hunter | $12,000 | no account filed |
| October 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hunter | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hunter | - | Two trees were reported down in the town of Hunter. |
| October 2017 | Heavy Rain | Hunter | - | Social Media reported 7 inches of heavy rainfall. |
| February 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hunter | - | A tree was blown down in Hunter during a thunderstorm. |
| July 1995 | Hail | Hunter | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Jewett | 2.1 miles | 21 | |
| East Jewett | 4.2 miles | 29 | |
| Onteora Park | 4.4 miles | 29 | |
| Maplecrest | 4.6 miles | 23 | |
| Tannersville | 4.7 miles | 29 | |
| Spruceton | 4.9 miles | 21 | |
| Elka Park | 5.0 miles | 29 | |
| Edgewood | 5.1 miles | 29 |
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 Hunter | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2879796 | 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 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.













