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Pine Plains, New York

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Pine Plains town. It lies in ZIP code area 12567. It lies near Little Stissing Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Pine Plains quadrangle. 1,142 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 469 feet above sea level.

Pine Plains within Dutchess County

Then and now

1899 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pine Plains, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Pine Plains, surveyed 1899

On record in Pine Plains

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

Population over time

2 figures

Pine Plains fell from 1,353 to 1,142 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
20101,353
20201,142-211 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 28 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

67 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Pine Plains between 1993 and 2019, burning about 117 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined29
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural5
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 July 1993Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
24 June 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 June 1997Smoking1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
8 May 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 May 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Pine Plains: 9 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Iron, Manganese, Manganese. 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
Ancram Lead MineLead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, MolybdenumProducerReplacement Vein
Ancram Lead MinesSilver, Copper, Lead, MolybdenumPast Producer
Ancram Pb MineLead, SilverPast ProducerVein
Morgan Limonite MineIron, ManganesePast ProducerSiderite
Morgan Limonite MineIron, ManganesePast Producer
Jack Meccariello PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Jack Meccariello Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Liberia PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Morgan MineIronPast ProducerSiderite
South Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Storms near this place

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Plains in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2000Flash FloodPine Plains$35,000no account filed
June 2000HailPine Plains$15,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindPine Plains$5,000no account filed
September 1998HailPine Plains$3,000no account filed
August 2024Thunderstorm WindPine Plains-A local 911 call center reported trees down in Pine Plains.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindPine Plains-One tree was reported down due to thunderstorm winds in Pine Plains.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindPine Plains-Trees were reported down in Pine Plains due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindPine Plains-Wires were reported down due to strong thunderstorm winds in Pine Plains.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindPine Plains-Trees blown down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindPine Plains-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dutchess 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
Hammertown0.9 miles28
Pachin Mills1.1 miles28
Bethel2.1 miles28
Mount Ross3.6 miles22
Pulvers Corners3.8 miles27
Attlebury4.4 miles28
Shekomeko4.7 miles27
Lafayetteville5.0 miles28

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 Pine PlainsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3462011The 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 960532. 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.