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Pottersville, New York

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Chester town. It lies in ZIP code area 12860. It stands on Fuller Brook. The Survey maps it on the Chestertown quadrangle. 359 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 846 feet above sea level.

Pottersville within Warren County

Then and now

1895 to 1989

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 Pottersville, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Pottersville, surveyed 1895

Population over time

2 figures

Pottersville fell from 424 to 359 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
2010424
2020359-65 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 26 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

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Pottersville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 109 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined32
Debris and open burning21
Arson/incendiarism12
Natural11
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2007Natural1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2001Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
23 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 August 1997Natural10 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
4 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreNew York Forest RangersSANDER FIRE
4 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
27 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Pottersville: 4 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Graphite, Sulfur-Pyrite, Mica, Feldspar, Quartz, Mica, Sulfur-Pyrite. 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
Berebe PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
International Graphite Co. PropertyGraphite, Feldspar, Quartz, Mica, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1899, 1901
Potterville ProspectGraphite, Sulfur-Pyrite, MicaOccurrenceGraphite, Phlogopite, Pyrite
Unnamed OccurrenceGraniteOccurrence1925
International Graphite Co.MineGraphitePast Producer
Johnson-Braden Graphite MineGraphitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

12 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pottersville in 12 storm reports between 2005 and 2019: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 2 hail, 2 flash flood. 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
June 2006Flash FloodPottersville1 hurt, $40,000According to a newspaper report, a woman suffered minor injuries near Pottersville when the vehicle she was driving fell through a section of Olmstead Road that was undermined by flooding Fish Creek. The flood water was from the combination of heavy rainfall and a breached beaver dam.
October 2019FloodPottersville$212,000There were six roads in the town of Horicon that were damaged or washed out by flooding.
October 2019FloodPottersville$100,000Several roads in the Pottersville/Igerna area were damaged or washed out, including Olmstedville Road, Stone Bridge Road, Igerna Road, and Hard Scrabble Road. The Natural Stone Bridge and Caves Park sustained damage to wooden stairs and boardwalks as a result of flooding along the Trout Brook.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindPottersville-Trees and wires were reported down in Pottersville as a result of thunderstorm winds.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindPottersville-Trees were reported down in Pottersville due to thunderstorm winds.
April 2011FloodPottersville-Flooding occurred along the Schroon River in Warren County with almost every flood plain, mid-river island or low lying forest under several feet of water in the basin. Numerous towns reported flooding of roadways, houses and riverside camps.
May 2011FloodPottersville-Flooding which began on April 28th continued along the Schroon River in Warren County.
August 2011Flash FloodPottersville-Route 9 was closed due to flooding between Loon Lake and Pottersville.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindPottersville-A tree was reported down on Route 9 in Pottersville due to strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2008HailPottersville-Penny size hail was reported in Pottersville during a thunderstorm.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindPottersville-Trees and powerlines were blown down in Pottersville.
August 2005HailPottersville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Adirondack3.9 miles27
Starbuckville4.6 miles26
Brant Lake5.3 miles29
Igerna5.4 miles26
Chestertown5.5 miles26
South Horicon6.1 miles26
Riparius6.3 miles26
Darrowsville8.5 miles25

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 PottersvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22074938The 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 961055. 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.