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Newport, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Newport town. It lies near Brown Island. The Survey maps it on the Newport quadrangle. 543 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 663 feet above sea level.

Newport within Herkimer 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 Newport, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Newport, surveyed 1898

On record in Newport

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

Newport fell from 640 to 543 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
2010640
2020543-97 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Newport between 1992 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined20
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes3
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

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
7 September 2016Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
27 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 August 2002Natural2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 July 2009Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Herkimer County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Newport: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Middleville Number 6 QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Middleville Number 6 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bienick PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravesville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Material Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Herkimer County

Storms near this place

31 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newport in 31 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 15 thunderstorm wind, 8 flash flood, 4 flood, 3 hail. 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
May 2000Flash FloodNewport$175,000no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindNewport$80,000no account filed
October 2019Flash FloodNewport$75,000A bridge at White Creek Road and Newport-Gray Road was washed out.
October 2019Flash FloodNewport$25,000Newport Road was washed out.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindNewport$20,000no account filed
August 2023Flash FloodNewport$10,000Flash flooding was reported along Honey Hill Road and Strumlock Road in the Town of Newport.
August 2023FloodNewport$5,000Tower Road in the Town of Newport was flooded and impassable.
August 2023FloodNewport$5,000Flooding continued along Honey Hill Road and Strumlock Road in the Town of Newport.
August 2023Flash FloodNewport$5,000Tower Road in the Town of Newport was flooded and impassable.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindNewport$5,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindNewport$5,000no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindNewport$5,000no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindNewport$4,000no account filed
October 2008Heavy RainNewport$1,000Heavy rainfall resulted in minor urban flooding of Steuben Road, and Strumlock Road in Newport. In addition, ponding of water was also reported on a few roads near Frankfort.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindNewport-Multiple trees were downed along Newport-Gray Road, Rose Valley Road and State Route 28 in the Town of Russia.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindNewport-Multiple trees and wires were down.
August 2023HailNewport-Image and video received showed large quantities of quarter size hail.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindNewport-Trees and wires were downed blocking a road in the Village of Newport.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindNewport-Trees and wires were downed.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindNewport-A tree was downed on West Street.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindNewport-Trees and wires downed.
July 2017Flash FloodNewport-A mudslide was reported along Route 28 near Newport.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindNewport-Trees were reported down in Newport due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindNewport-A tree and wires were downed as a result of thunderstorm winds in Poland, about one mile west of Newport.
April 2011Flash FloodNewport-A car rescue occurred on Strumlock Road near Honey Hill Road in Newport due to high water from heavy rainfall.
July 2010HailNewport-Half-dollar size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Newport.
March 2007FloodNewport-Warm temperatures led to snowmelt, which combined with moderate rainfall to create flooding in portions of southern Herkimer county during the early morning hours of Thursday March 15th.|Several roads and bridges were closed due to flooding, including Farrington Road near Newport, State Route 51 in the Ilion Gorge, and State Route 167 between Lyon Road and Dolgeville.
November 2006FloodNewport-Minor flooding occurred along the Mohawk River at Delta Dam, when it went above its flood stage of 551.5 feet at 9 PM EST on Thursday, November 16th. The river crested at 552.35 feet at 10:30 AM EST on Friday, November 17th, before falling back below flood stage at 8:23 PM EST on Saturday November 18th.
November 2006Flash FloodNewport-Two mudslides closed Route 28 between Newport and Middleville around 7 PM EST on Thursday November 16th. Additional flooding was reported by emergency management officials near Ilion.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindNewport-Trees were blown down.
August 2001HailNewport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Herkimer 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
Old City2.2 miles22
Farrel Corner3.2 miles24
Brayton Corners3.3 miles24
Irish Settlement3.5 miles24
Norway3.6 miles22
Poland3.7 miles24
Cold Brook4.1 miles24
Middleville4.1 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 NewportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3460658The 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 958518. 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.