Richfield Springs, New York
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Richfield town. It lies in ZIP code area 13439. It lies near Canadarago Hill. The Survey maps it on the Richfield Springs quadrangle. 1,050 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,312 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1903 to 1985The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Richfield Springs
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 7 records
Baker Octagon Barnlisted 1984
East Main Street Historic Districtlisted 1995
US Post Office-Richfield Springslisted 1989
West Main Street-West James Street Historic Districtlisted 1994- Church Street Historic Districtlisted 1997
- Sunnysidelisted 1988
- Tunnicliff-Jordan Houselisted 2010
Population over time
2 figuresRichfield Springs fell from 1,264 to 1,050 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,264 | |
| 2020 | 1,050 | -214 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1903 USGS Richfield Springs quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1943 USGS Richfield Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1945 USGS Richfield Springs quadrangle1:31680
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
47 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Richfield Springs between 1999 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 17 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/undetermined | 21 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 17 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 18 August 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 July 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 30 July 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 29 July 1999 | Smoking | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 15 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 14 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 May 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.1 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richfield Springs in 1 storm report in 1993: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richfield Springs | $5,000 | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton | 2.5 miles | 17 | |
| Richfield | 3.6 miles | 17 | |
| Dogtown | 5.2 miles | 17 | |
| Schuyler Lake | 5.5 miles | 17 | |
| Springfield Center | 6.0 miles | 16 | |
| Taylortown | 6.2 miles | 16 | |
| Springfield Four Corners | 6.2 miles | 17 | |
| Exeter Corner | 6.5 miles | 17 |
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 Richfield Springs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3452810 | The 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 962471. 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.
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.







