Richmondville, New York
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Richmondville town. It lies in ZIP code area 12149. It lies near Bear Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Richmondville quadrangle. 858 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,096 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1904 to 1985The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Richmondville
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
Richmondville United Methodist Churchlisted 2006- Bunn-Tillapaugh Feed Milllisted 2006
Population over time
2 figuresRichmondville fell from 918 to 858 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 | 918 | |
| 2020 | 858 | -60 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 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.
- 1904 USGS Richmondville quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1944 USGS Richmondville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1945 USGS Richmondville 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
90 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Richmondville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 106 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 12 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 | 46 |
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 4 September 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 27 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 21 September 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 15 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 12 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 11 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | SUMMIT HAY BALES |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
25 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richmondville in 25 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 17 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richmondville | $20,000 | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richmondville | $17,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Richmondville | $9,000 | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richmondville | - | Several reports of trees downed in the town of Richmondville. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richmondville | - | Trees and wires were downed with one tree on fire. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richmondville | - | Large limbs were downed. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richmondville | - | Half of a large willow tree was downed, along with several smaller branches. |
| September 2018 | Flash Flood | Richmondville | - | Water was reported in the basement of residences in Richmondville. |
| August 2017 | Hail | Richmondville | - | One inch hail was reported. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richmondville | - | A tree was downed on Mudlake Road. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richmondville | - | Multiple trees was reported down. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richmondville | - | A tree was down on State Route 7 blocking the road. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richmondville | - | Multiple trees and wires were downed. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richmondville | - | A house caught fire due to downed power lines. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richmondville | - | A tree was downed near Richmondville due to thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richmondville | - | Numerous trees and wires were reported down in Richmondville due to thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richmondville | - | Two trees were reported down due to thunderstorms winds on Summit St and Brooker Hollow Road in Richmondville. |
| June 2013 | Flash Flood | Richmondville | - | Multiple roads were reportedly closed in Richmondville due to flash flooding. A landslide was reported near State Route 10 due to the flooding as well. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Richmondville | - | Quarter sized hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Richmondville. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richmondville | - | Trees were reported down on wires due to thunderstorm winds in Richmondville. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richmondville | - | Two trees were reported down in Richmondville due to strong thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2006 | Flood | Richmondville | - | A trained spotter reported that a mud slide occurred in Richmondville. |
| November 2005 | Hail | Richmondville | - | A trained spotter reported that three quarter inch hail occurred at Richmondville. |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richmondville | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Richmondville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beards Hollow | 2.0 miles | 17 | |
| West Richmondville | 2.9 miles | 17 | |
| Clove | 3.5 miles | 17 | |
| Warnerville | 3.5 miles | 17 | |
| Hyndsville | 3.5 miles | 17 | |
| Summit | 4.0 miles | 17 | |
| Janesville | 5.0 miles | 17 | |
| Vintonton | 5.0 miles | 22 |
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 Richmondville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q521486 | 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 962483. 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.







