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.
Then and now
1910 to 1986The 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.


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
Liberty Village Historic Districtlisted 1978
Munson Dinerlisted 2006
St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Churchlisted 1997
Town and Country Buildinglisted 2004- Hillig Castlelisted 2021
- Liberty Downtown Historic Districtlisted 2006
Population over time
2 figuresLiberty 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 4,392 | |
| 2020 | 4,700 | +308 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 22 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.
- 1910 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1942 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:125000
- 1944 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Liberty East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
164 since 1997Regional 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/undetermined | 91 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 22 |
| Debris and open burning | 22 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Other causes | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 29 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 28 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 26 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 17 September 2012 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 August 2014 | Smoking | 2.4 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
17 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2006 | Flash Flood | Liberty | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty | $10,000 | A 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 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty | $7,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Flash Flood | Liberty | $5,000 | A 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 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and wires in Liberty and Harris. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty | $3,000 | Trees and wires were blown down. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty | $2,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree and wires near the intersection of Buckley Street and West Street. |
| May 2018 | Funnel Cloud | Liberty | - | Spotter reported a funnel cloud and pea sized hail. |
| July 2009 | Heavy Rain | Liberty | - | One hour rainfall measured 1.12 inches. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty | - | Trees down. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Liberty | - | An isolated severe thunderstorm dumped hail up to three-quarters inch in Liberty during the afternoon of June 14th. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Liberty | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Liberty | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Liberty | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Liberty | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Liberty | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Liberty | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ferndale | 1.9 miles | 22 | |
| Loomis | 2.1 miles | 22 | |
| Parksville | 3.8 miles | 22 | |
| Swan Lake | 3.9 miles | 22 | |
| Bradley | 4.0 miles | 22 | |
| White Sulphur Springs | 4.3 miles | 22 | |
| Divine Corners | 4.3 miles | 22 | |
| Loch Sheldrake | 5.2 miles | 22 |
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 Liberty | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3825966 | 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 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.










