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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.

Phoenicia within Ulster County

Then and now

1900 to 1997

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Phoenicia, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Phoenicia, surveyed 1900

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

Population over time

2 figures

Phoenicia 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.

YearPeople Change
2010309
2020268-41 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

17 since 1993

Regional 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 ceremony5
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
18 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersWITTENBERG FIRE
6 August 1997Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
12 August 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
31 July 2002Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 July 1993Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
16 July 1993Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
6 May 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 April 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this place

8 since 2000

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2000Thunderstorm WindPhoenicia$59,000no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindPhoenicia-Wires and a tree was reported down on Grandview Acres Road.
December 2020FloodPhoenicia-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 2018Thunderstorm WindPhoenicia-A tree and wires were reported down.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindPhoenicia-Trees were blown down in Phoenicia.
September 2004Flash FloodPhoenicia-Streams in the area flowed over County Route 40.
May 2004HailPhoenicia-no account filed
June 2001HailPhoenicia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ulster 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
Chichester1.2 miles24
Woodland2.4 miles24
Longyear (historical)2.6 miles24
Mount Pleasant2.9 miles24
Mount Tremper3.5 miles24
Allaben3.7 miles24
Willow4.7 miles29
Shandaken4.9 miles24

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 PhoeniciaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7186711The 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.