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.
Then and now
1893 to 1986The 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.


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
Leeds Dutch Reformed Churchlisted 1996
Newkirk Homesteadlisted 1979
Salisbury Manorlisted 1979
John Van Vechten Houselisted 1995
Population over time
2 figuresLeeds 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 377 | |
| 2020 | 429 | +52 (+14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 25 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.
- 1893 USGS Coxsackie quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Coxsackie quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
- 1929 USGS Coxsackie quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Leeds quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
252 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 102 |
| Debris and open burning | 75 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 26 |
| Natural | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Smoking | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 30 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 29 September 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 26 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 26 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 24 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 21 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 20 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 23 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Potic Mountain Blue Ss Quarry | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Austin's Glen Deposit | Quartz | Occurrence | ||
| Diamond Hill Deposit | Quartz | Occurrence | ||
| Plass Hill Carbonate Iron Mine | Iron, Sulfur | Producer | Calcite, Pyrite, Quartz, Siderite | |
| Plass Hill Carbonate Iron Mine | Iron, Sulfur | Past Producer | ||
| Plass Hill | Iron | Past Producer | Residual | |
| Catskill Limestone Quarry | Limestone, General | Producer | Limestone | |
| Catskill Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Colarusso Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Hudson Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this place
9 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2023 | Flood | Leeds | 1 killed, $30,000 | Rising 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 2010 | Flash Flood | Leeds | $180,000 | A home was severely damaged by water due to flash flooding on County Route 23B in Leeds/Catskill. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leeds | $2,000 | no account filed |
| December 2020 | Flood | Leeds | - | Cauterskill Road and County Route 23B in Leeds were closed due to water over the road. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Leeds | - | The New York State Thruway southbound lanes at mile marker 111 were flooded due to heavy rainfall from thunderstorms. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leeds | - | 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 2004 | Flash Flood | Leeds | - | 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 2003 | Flash Flood | Leeds | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Leeds | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson Heights | 1.8 miles | 27 | |
| Cauterskill | 2.5 miles | 27 | |
| Hamburg | 3.1 miles | 27 | |
| South Cairo | 3.2 miles | 25 | |
| Catskill | 3.3 miles | 27 | |
| Cairo Junction | 3.4 miles | 25 | |
| West Athens | 3.8 miles | 25 | |
| Limestreet | 3.9 miles | 25 |
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 Leeds | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3461415 | 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 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.









