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.
Then and now
1901 to 1986The 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.


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
District 10 Schoollisted 1998
First Presbyterian Church of Margaretvillelisted 2004
Galli-Curci Theatrelisted 2006- Van Benschoten House and Guest Houselisted 2002
Population over time
2 figuresMargaretville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 596 | |
| 2020 | 514 | -82 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 19 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.
- 1901 USGS Margaretville quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Margaretville quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
- 1945 USGS Margaretville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1946 USGS Margaretville quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
62 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 16 |
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 26 August 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 17 August 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 19 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 14 July 2000 | Natural | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 14 July 2000 | Natural | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 12 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 June 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Town Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2020 | Flash Flood | Margaretville | $25,000 | Multiple roads were flooded throughout the village. The East Branch Delaware was flooded and rising rapidly. |
| October 2021 | Flash Flood | Margaretville | $10,000 | Numerous roads were flooded in and around Margaretville. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Margaretville | $10,000 | A 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 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Margaretville | $2,500 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees onto a roadway. |
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Margaretville | - | Trees were blow down due to thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Margaretville | - | Law enforcement officers reported several trees down in Margaretville. 2 trees were also reported down just east of Delhi. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Margaretville | - | Trees downed. |
| December 2006 | Hail | Margaretville | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Margaretville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkville | 1.5 miles | 20 | |
| Dunraven | 2.8 miles | 19 | |
| Kelly Corners | 3.5 miles | 20 | |
| Grant Mills | 4.8 miles | 21 | |
| Halcottsville | 4.8 miles | 20 | |
| New Kingston | 4.8 miles | 19 | |
| Clovesville | 5.1 miles | 20 | |
| Arena | 5.2 miles | 21 |
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 Margaretville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1004016 | 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 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.








