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Middleburgh, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Middleburgh town. It lies in ZIP code area 12122. It stands on Stony Creek. The Survey maps it on the Middleburgh quadrangle. 1,131 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 643 feet above sea level.

Middleburgh within Schoharie County

Then and now

1898 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Middleburgh, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Middleburgh, surveyed 1898

On record in Middleburgh

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 5 records

Population over time

3 figures

Middleburgh fell from 1,398 to 1,131 between 2000 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
20001,398
20101,500+102 (+7%)
20201,131-369 (-25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

81 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Middleburgh between 2000 and 2019, burning about 103 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined33
Arson/incendiarism15
Debris and open burning13
Smoking9
Natural7
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
3 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
31 July 2003Debris and open burning2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 June 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 June 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 June 2019Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schoharie County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Middleburgh: 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sulfur. 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
Masick QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Masick Quarry and MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Schoharie Pyrite DepositSulfur, Barium-BariteOccurrence
Spring Street PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Schoharie 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
West Middleburgh1.1 miles21
Watsonville3.2 miles22
Fultonham3.9 miles22
Huntersland4.3 miles21
Schoharie4.8 miles22
Patria5.2 miles22
Franklinton5.6 miles21
East Cobleskill6.0 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 MiddleburghAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q524354The 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 957144. 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.