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Margaretville, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Middletown town. It lies in ZIP code area 12455. It lies near Pakatakan Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Margaretville quadrangle. 514 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,316 feet above sea level.

Margaretville within Delaware County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Margaretville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Margaretville, surveyed 1901

On record in Margaretville

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

Margaretville fell from 596 to 514 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
2010596
2020514-82 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Margaretville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 82 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined16
Debris and open burning16
Natural10
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking2

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
31 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 August 2008Arson/incendiarism4.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 July 2000Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
14 July 2000Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
12 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 June 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Margaretville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Margaretville in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood. 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
December 2020Flash FloodMargaretville$25,000Multiple roads were flooded throughout the village. The East Branch Delaware was flooded and rising rapidly.
October 2021Flash FloodMargaretville$10,000Numerous roads were flooded in and around Margaretville.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMargaretville$10,000A thunderstorm briefly reached severe levels across southeastern sections of the county as wind damage was produced. Trees and wires were downed in Margaretville around 8:05 pm EDT.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindMargaretville$2,500Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees onto a roadway.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindMargaretville-Trees were blow down due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindMargaretville-Law enforcement officers reported several trees down in Margaretville. 2 trees were also reported down just east of Delhi.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindMargaretville-Trees downed.
December 2006HailMargaretville-no account filed
May 2004HailMargaretville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
Arkville1.5 miles20
Dunraven2.8 miles19
Kelly Corners3.5 miles20
Grant Mills4.8 miles21
Halcottsville4.8 miles20
New Kingston4.8 miles19
Clovesville5.1 miles20
Arena5.2 miles21

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 MargaretvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1004016The 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 956506. 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.