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Port Ewen, New York

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Esopus town. It lies in ZIP code area 12466. It lies near Mingo Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Kingston East quadrangle. 3,678 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 184 feet above sea level.

Port Ewen within Ulster County

Then and now

1898 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Port Ewen, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Port Ewen, surveyed 1898

On record in Port Ewen

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Port Ewen grew from 3,546 to 3,678 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
20103,546
20203,678+132 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 31 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

453 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 453 fires within 5 miles of Port Ewen between 1997 and 2020, burning about 424 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 42 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/undetermined233
Smoking98
Arson/incendiarism42
Debris and open burning33
Natural19
Equipment and vehicle use16
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
4 September 2009Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Port Ewen: 9 past producers, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
EddyvilleBloating MaterialProducerSedimentary
Kingston QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Kingston QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Dwyer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dwyer Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
H. Franco and Son Sand and Stone CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Colite PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Colite PitClayPast Producer
Eddyville Clay PitClayPast Producer
Hudson Stone Quarry & Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this place

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Ewen in 14 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
May 2000Thunderstorm WindPort Ewen$66,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindPort Ewen$20,000Severe thunderstorms were responsible for downing trees and powerlines in Saratoga County, Rensselaer County, Dutchess County and Ulster County. Lightning injured a woman in Albany County.
September 1993Thunderstorm WindPort Ewen$5,000A strong cold front moved across Eastern New York during the late afternoon and evening hours of September 3rd. A tornado touched down in the Hamilton County Town of Long Lake. The tornado had a continuous path of about three miles from halfway between Deer Pond and North Pond to 1.5 miles southwest of Hardigan Pond. It then skipped along another 3-mile- path with the last touch down occurring halfway between Salmon Lake and Rock Pond. The tornado downed large swaths of forest timber as it left a damage path up to 0.25 mile wide. In Oneida, Sullivan and Ulster Counties thunderstorm winds downed tree limbs and power lines across parts of each county leaving over 7,000 customers without power in Oneida County and more than 5,000 customers without power in Ulster County. In Highmount in Delaware County lightning struck a house twice during the same storm. The lightning blew out windows in the house, dug up the yard and disabled two vehicles. In Broome County thunderstorm winds downed a tree and power lines off Rte. 26 near the North Endicott Substation.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindPort Ewen$5,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindPort Ewen-A tree and wires were downed leading to a road closure on US Route 9W north of Ulster Avenue.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindPort Ewen-Wires were downed on Minturn Street in Port Ewen.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindPort Ewen-A tree and wires were reported down on Broadway.
July 2021Flash FloodPort Ewen-A road was closed due to water over the roadway.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindPort Ewen-Wires were downed on East Stout Avenue.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindPort Ewen-Five reports of trees down near Port Ewen.
February 2017Thunderstorm WindPort Ewen-Connelly Road was closed between Route 9W and Millbrook Drive due to a downed tree.
June 2011HailPort Ewen-Penny size hail (measured) was reported during a thunderstorm in Port Ewen.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindPort Ewen-A measured wind gust of 64 mph was reported in Port Ewen.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindPort Ewen-Trees down

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
Sleightsburg0.8 miles31
Connelly0.9 miles31
Rondout1.2 miles31
Ponck Hockie1.4 miles31
Wilbur1.5 miles30
Kingston1.9 miles31
Ellerslie1.9 miles31
New Salem2.2 miles30

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 Port EwenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3461421The 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 960965. 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.