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Pulaski, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Richland town. It lies in ZIP code area 13142. It stands on Spring Brook. The Survey maps it on the Pulaski quadrangle. 2,186 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 371 feet above sea level.

Pulaski within Oswego County

Then and now

1895 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pulaski, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Pulaski, surveyed 1895

On record in Pulaski

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Pulaski fell from 2,365 to 2,186 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
20102,365
20202,186-179 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 22 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

79 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Pulaski between 1999 and 2020, burning about 41 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined38
Arson/incendiarism13
Debris and open burning8
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural2

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 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2020Smokingunder an acreNew York Forest RangersGRINDSTONE CREEK
2 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 September 2001Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oswego County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pulaski: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Coffin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sandy Creek Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oswego County

Storms near this place

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pulaski in 17 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
August 1993Thunderstorm WindPulaski$500,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindPulaski$35,000no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindPulaski$20,000no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindPulaski$10,000Trees were dowed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindPulaski$10,000no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindPulaski$10,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindPulaski$10,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindPulaski$10,000no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindPulaski$10,000no account filed
August 2018Flash FloodPulaski$5,000Five village roads flooded with six to eight inches of water across them. Water was reported up to the doors of many businesses.
September 2010FloodPulaski$5,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindPulaski$2,000Trees and wires down in Town of Pulaski.
August 2018Heavy RainPulaski$2,000Rainfall fell between 1 and 5 PM. Basement flooding was also reported.
August 2018Flash FloodPulaski$1,000Route 41 reported flooded and closed near the railroad crossing southwest of Pulaski.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindPulaski$500Tree downed and blocking roadway.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindPulaski$500A tree was downed in Pulaski on North Jefferson Street.
August 2018Flash FloodPulaski$500North Street was reported flooded and closed.

Every storm recorded in Oswego 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
Farmers Corner1.1 miles22
Bethel Corners3.2 miles22
Port Ontario3.2 miles22
Daysville Corner3.9 miles22
Daysville3.9 miles22
Selkirk4.0 miles22
Tylers Corner4.1 miles22
Tinker Tavern Corner4.2 miles22

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 PulaskiAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1020592The 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 961947. 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.