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Red Creek, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wolcott town. It lies in ZIP code area 13143. The Survey maps it on the Victory quadrangle. 495 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 341 feet above sea level.

Red Creek within Wayne County

Then and now

1902 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Red Creek, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Red Creek, surveyed 1902

Population over time

2 figures

Red Creek fell from 532 to 495 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
2010532
2020495-37 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 24 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

95 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Red Creek between 1999 and 2020, burning about 67 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined60
Recreation and ceremony12
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
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
23 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
1 September 1999Smoking1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
27 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Red Creek: 6 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Fair Haven Iron Company PropertyIronPast Producer
Furnaceville Iron Co.IronPast Producer1887
North of WolcottIronPast Producer
Swartout OpeningIronPast Producer
B. R. De Witt, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Highway Dept PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Highway Dept PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Town of Victory PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Town of Victory PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Red Creek in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. 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
July 1994Thunderstorm WindRed Creek$50,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindRed Creek$20,000Law enforcement reported wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindRed Creek$10,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down.
September 2013HailRed Creek$10,000no account filed
September 2013HailRed Creek$10,000no account filed
May 2013HailRed Creek$8,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindRed Creek$5,000Trees and wires downed around the town of Red Creek.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindRed Creek$2,000Trees and wires downed in Red Creek.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindRed Creek$2,000Trees and powerlines were reported downed.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindRed Creek$500A tree was downed over the road.
July 2024Tornado (EFU)Red Creek-Witness reports corroborated a vehicle lifting from the road and vehicular traffic|being affected by a very brief tornado touchdown in the Town of|Wolcott. Because of no tree damage nor property damage, this was|rated as an EF-Unknown.

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
North Wolcott4.0 miles20
Wolcott5.2 miles22
Furnace Village5.2 miles22
Hickory Square5.7 miles22
Butler Center6.0 miles22
West Butler6.5 miles22
Desbrough Park6.9 miles20
Rice Mill7.2 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 Red CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3452662The 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 962279. 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.