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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.

Richfield Springs within Otsego County

Then and now

1903 to 1985

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Richfield Springs, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Richfield Springs, surveyed 1903

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

Population over time

2 figures

Richfield 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,264
20201,050-214 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

47 since 1999

Regional 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/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism17
Debris and open burning5
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
3 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 July 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 July 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 July 1999Smokingunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
15 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 May 2007Arson/incendiarism1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this place

1 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1993Thunderstorm WindRichfield Springs$5,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otsego 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
Brighton2.5 miles17
Richfield3.6 miles17
Dogtown5.2 miles17
Schuyler Lake5.5 miles17
Springfield Center6.0 miles16
Taylortown6.2 miles16
Springfield Four Corners6.2 miles17
Exeter Corner6.5 miles17

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 SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3452810The 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.