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Liberty, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Liberty town. It lies in ZIP code area 12754. It lies near Revonah Hill. The Survey maps it on the Liberty East quadrangle. 4,700 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,506 feet above sea level.

Liberty within Sullivan County

Then and now

1910 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Liberty, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Liberty, surveyed 1910

On record in Liberty

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 6 records

Population over time

2 figures

Liberty grew from 4,392 to 4,700 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
20104,392
20204,700+308 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

164 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Liberty between 1997 and 2020, burning about 198 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 22 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/undetermined91
Arson/incendiarism22
Debris and open burning22
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural5
Other causes5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2012Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2014Smoking2.4 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

17 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Liberty in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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 2006Flash FloodLiberty$25,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindLiberty$10,000A thunderstorm moved into the area Monday afternoon and quickly became severe. The thunderstorm knocked trees and wires down from Roscoe to Liberty to Monticello.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindLiberty$7,000no account filed
July 2008Flash FloodLiberty$5,000A spotter reported 2.14 inches of rain in 24 hours ending at 7 a.m., then another 2 inches from 7 a.m. to 930 a.m. Parts of a roadway were washed away below this location.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindLiberty$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and wires in Liberty and Harris.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindLiberty$3,000Trees and wires were blown down.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindLiberty$2,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree and wires near the intersection of Buckley Street and West Street.
May 2018Funnel CloudLiberty-Spotter reported a funnel cloud and pea sized hail.
July 2009Heavy RainLiberty-One hour rainfall measured 1.12 inches.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindLiberty-Trees down.
June 1995HailLiberty-An isolated severe thunderstorm dumped hail up to three-quarters inch in Liberty during the afternoon of June 14th.
June 2011HailLiberty-no account filed
June 2011HailLiberty-no account filed
June 2011HailLiberty-no account filed
June 2009HailLiberty-no account filed
August 2009HailLiberty-no account filed
June 2008HailLiberty-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan 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
Ferndale1.9 miles22
Loomis2.1 miles22
Parksville3.8 miles22
Swan Lake3.9 miles22
Bradley4.0 miles22
White Sulphur Springs4.3 miles22
Divine Corners4.3 miles22
Loch Sheldrake5.2 miles22

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 LibertyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3825966The 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 955269. 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.