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Leeds, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Catskill town. It lies in ZIP code area 12451. It stands on Leeds Flat. The Survey maps it on the Leeds quadrangle. 429 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 157 feet above sea level.

Leeds within Greene County

Then and now

1893 to 1986

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 Leeds, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Leeds, surveyed 1893

On record in Leeds

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Leeds grew from 377 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
2010377
2020429+52 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 25 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

252 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 252 fires within 5 miles of Leeds between 1992 and 2020, burning about 331 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 26 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/undetermined102
Debris and open burning75
Arson/incendiarism26
Natural16
Equipment and vehicle use14
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
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
6 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2020Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
26 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Leeds: 11 past producers, 10 producers, 2 occurrences. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Limestone, General, Iron. 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
South Potic Mountain Blue Ss QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Austin's Glen DepositQuartzOccurrence
Diamond Hill DepositQuartzOccurrence
Plass Hill Carbonate Iron MineIron, SulfurProducerCalcite, Pyrite, Quartz, Siderite
Plass Hill Carbonate Iron MineIron, SulfurPast Producer
Plass HillIronPast ProducerResidual
Catskill Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Catskill QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Colarusso QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Hudson QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leeds in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 4 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 hail. The reports record 1 death. 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
December 2023FloodLeeds1 killed, $30,000Rising waters on the Catskill Creek flooded portions of Route 23B and Cauterskill Road near Leeds. A 76-year-old woman died after their vehicle was swept off Cauterskill Road due to flood waters after driving around a traffic barrier blocking the road.
December 2010Flash FloodLeeds$180,000A home was severely damaged by water due to flash flooding on County Route 23B in Leeds/Catskill.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindLeeds$2,000no account filed
December 2020FloodLeeds-Cauterskill Road and County Route 23B in Leeds were closed due to water over the road.
July 2013Flash FloodLeeds-The New York State Thruway southbound lanes at mile marker 111 were flooded due to heavy rainfall from thunderstorms.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLeeds-Trees were reported down at the Rip Van Winkle Motor Lodge in Leeds, due to strong thunderstorm winds. The winds were believed to occur from a microburst associated with the thunderstorm, with estimated peak winds of 85 mph.
September 2004Flash FloodLeeds-Officials closed a section of County Route 23B in Leeds, and many other creekside roads were closed as well. In addition, scattered power outages were reported due to the flooding.
August 2003Flash FloodLeeds-no account filed
August 1997HailLeeds-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
Jefferson Heights1.8 miles27
Cauterskill2.5 miles27
Hamburg3.1 miles27
South Cairo3.2 miles25
Catskill3.3 miles27
Cairo Junction3.4 miles25
West Athens3.8 miles25
Limestreet3.9 miles25

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 LeedsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3461415The 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 955168. 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.