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Port Jervis, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Port Jervis City. It lies in ZIP code area 12771. It lies near Delaware River Gorge. The Survey maps it on the Port Jervis North quadrangle. 8,775 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 400 feet above sea level.

Port Jervis within Orange County

Then and now

1906 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 91 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 Jervis, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Port Jervis, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

On record in Port Jervis

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Port Jervis fell from 8,828 to 8,775 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
20108,828
20208,775-53 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 23 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

270 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 270 fires within 5 miles of Port Jervis between 1994 and 2020, burning about 257 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 31 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/undetermined115
Arson/incendiarism31
Debris and open burning27
Equipment and vehicle use24
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Smoking17
Natural15
Recreation and ceremony9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Other causes5

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
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2016Other causesunder an acreNew Jersey Forest Fire Servicenot named
21 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
11 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Port Jervis: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Delaware Valley Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Port Jervis Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sandford Nearpass QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer1868, 1900
William Nearpass QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer1868, 1900

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

19 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Jervis in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 3 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2000LightningPort Jervis1 hurtno account filed
September 2023Thunderstorm WindPort Jervis$5,000Multiple reports of downed tree limbs and power lines across Port Jervis.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindPort Jervis$4,000Large tree down in front of the Port Jervis Fire Department.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindPort Jervis$3,000Multiple trees and wires were reported down across the town, especially near Main Street and the Acre neighborhood.
June 2020HailPort Jervis-Hail just smaller than a golf ball reported by the Port Jervis Police on East Main Street at Jersey Avenue.
September 2012Flash FloodPort Jervis-Heavy rain resulted in ponding of water 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 ft. high in the streets of the 4th ward of Port Jervis, which caused basement flooding in several homes. The department of public works reported 3.25 inches of rainfall in an hour.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindPort Jervis-Port Jervis police reported multiple trees down across the city of Port Jervis.
December 2006Thunderstorm WindPort Jervis-Law enforcement reported downed trees and power lines.
June 2005HailPort Jervis-Quarter size hail in Port Jervis, Middletown, and Pine Island between 1:50 pm and 2:05 pm local daylight time.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindPort Jervis-A line of thunderstorms entered Orange county around 3:11 pm local time around the town of Port Jervis, downing trees and power lines. The line proceeded to the east, knocking down trees and power lines countywide through about 3:45 pm local time.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindPort Jervis-A trained spotter reported trees down due to high winds in Port Jervis. Law enforcement officials reported downed trees and power lines in Walden at 16:15 EST.
September 2004Flash FloodPort Jervis-Torrential rains resulted in flash flooding on nearly all roads in Port Jervis. A state of Emergency was declared by the Mayor.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindPort Jervis-Law Enforcement reported that large tree branches and power lines were knocked down by strong thunderstorm winds.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindPort Jervis-no account filed
May 1998HailPort Jervis-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindPort Jervis-no account filed
September 1996Flash FloodPort Jervis-no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindPort Jervis-no account filed
April 1995Thunderstorm WindPort Jervis-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orange 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
Germantown0.8 miles23
Tristates1.1 miles24
Sparrow Bush2.4 miles23
Smith Corners4.1 miles22
Greenville4.2 miles22
Huguenot4.4 miles23
Shin Hollow4.6 miles19
Cahoonzie5.3 miles23

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 JervisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q976675The 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 960971. 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.