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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.

Richmondville within Schoharie County

Then and now

1904 to 1985

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Richmondville, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Richmondville, surveyed 1904

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

Population over time

2 figures

Richmondville 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.

YearPeople Change
2010918
2020858-60 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

90 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined46
Debris and open burning16
Arson/incendiarism12
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNew York Forest RangersSUMMIT HAY BALES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schoharie County

Storms near this place

25 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1998Thunderstorm WindRichmondville$20,000no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindRichmondville$17,000no account filed
June 2000HailRichmondville$9,000no account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindRichmondville-Several reports of trees downed in the town of Richmondville.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindRichmondville-Trees and wires were downed with one tree on fire.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindRichmondville-Large limbs were downed.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindRichmondville-Half of a large willow tree was downed, along with several smaller branches.
September 2018Flash FloodRichmondville-Water was reported in the basement of residences in Richmondville.
August 2017HailRichmondville-One inch hail was reported.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindRichmondville-A tree was downed on Mudlake Road.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindRichmondville-Multiple trees was reported down.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindRichmondville-A tree was down on State Route 7 blocking the road.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindRichmondville-Multiple trees and wires were downed.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindRichmondville-A house caught fire due to downed power lines.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindRichmondville-A tree was downed near Richmondville due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindRichmondville-Numerous trees and wires were reported down in Richmondville due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindRichmondville-Two trees were reported down due to thunderstorms winds on Summit St and Brooker Hollow Road in Richmondville.
June 2013Flash FloodRichmondville-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 2012HailRichmondville-Quarter sized hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Richmondville.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindRichmondville-Trees were reported down on wires due to thunderstorm winds in Richmondville.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindRichmondville-Two trees were reported down in Richmondville due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2006FloodRichmondville-A trained spotter reported that a mud slide occurred in Richmondville.
November 2005HailRichmondville-A trained spotter reported that three quarter inch hail occurred at Richmondville.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindRichmondville-no account filed
May 2004HailRichmondville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Schoharie 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
Beards Hollow2.0 miles17
West Richmondville2.9 miles17
Clove3.5 miles17
Warnerville3.5 miles17
Hyndsville3.5 miles17
Summit4.0 miles17
Janesville5.0 miles17
Vintonton5.0 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 RichmondvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q521486The 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.