Phoenicia, New York
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Shandaken town. It lies in ZIP code area 12464. It lies near Stony Clove. The Survey maps it on the Phoenicia quadrangle. 268 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Then and now
1900 to 1997The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1900 against another survey:
On record in Phoenicia
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 1 record
Phoenicia Railroad Stationlisted 1995
Population over time
2 figuresPhoenicia fell from 309 to 268 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 | 309 | |
| 2020 | 268 | -41 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 24 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.
- 1900 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
- 1946 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
17 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Phoenicia between 1993 and 2017, burning about 19 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | WITTENBERG FIRE |
| 6 August 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 12 August 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 31 July 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 17 July 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 16 July 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 6 May 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 30 April 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.6 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Phoenicia in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Phoenicia | $59,000 | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Phoenicia | - | Wires and a tree was reported down on Grandview Acres Road. |
| December 2020 | Flood | Phoenicia | - | Flooding occurred in Downtown Phoenicia between 2:00 am and 5:30 am. Water was flowing down Main Street from the Esopus Creek. Eleven people were evacuated. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Phoenicia | - | A tree and wires were reported down. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Phoenicia | - | Trees were blown down in Phoenicia. |
| September 2004 | Flash Flood | Phoenicia | - | Streams in the area flowed over County Route 40. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Phoenicia | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Phoenicia | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chichester | 1.2 miles | 24 | |
| Woodland | 2.4 miles | 24 | |
| Longyear (historical) | 2.6 miles | 24 | |
| Mount Pleasant | 2.9 miles | 24 | |
| Mount Tremper | 3.5 miles | 24 | |
| Allaben | 3.7 miles | 24 | |
| Willow | 4.7 miles | 29 | |
| Shandaken | 4.9 miles | 24 |
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 Phoenicia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7186711 | 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 960320. 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.









