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Rhinecliff, New York

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Rhinebeck town. It lies in ZIP code area 12574. It stands on Rhinebeck Kill. The Survey maps it on the Kingston East quadrangle. 380 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 55 feet above sea level.

Rhinecliff within Dutchess 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 Rhinecliff, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Rhinecliff, surveyed 1898

On record in Rhinecliff

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 6 records

Population over time

2 figures

Rhinecliff fell from 425 to 380 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
2010425
2020380-45 (-11%)

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

456 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 456 fires within 5 miles of Rhinecliff between 1997 and 2020, burning about 428 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 44 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/undetermined232
Smoking93
Arson/incendiarism44
Debris and open burning33
Natural24
Equipment and vehicle use17
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony3

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
9 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Rhinecliff: 9 past producers, 6 producers. 6 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
Dwyer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dwyer Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Kingston QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Kingston QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Colite PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Colite PitClayPast Producer
Eddyville Clay PitClayPast Producer
Hudson Stone Quarry & Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Jova Manufacturing Corp Clay MineClayProducer

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Storms near this place

2 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rhinecliff in 2 storm reports between 2022 and 2023: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2023Thunderstorm WindRhinecliff-Tree and wires were reported down on Morton Road.
July 2022Tornado (EFU)Rhinecliff-A waterspout was sighted on the Hudson River.

Every storm recorded in Dutchess 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
Rhinebeck2.1 miles31
Weys Corners4.0 miles31
Wurtemburg4.7 miles29
Staatsburg4.9 miles30
Lamplight Court5.1 miles31
Eighmyville5.2 miles29
Barrytown5.6 miles31
DeWitt Mills5.7 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 RhinecliffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7320562The 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 962439. 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.