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Romulus, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Varick town. It lies in ZIP code area 14541. The Survey maps it on the Romulus quadrangle. 356 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 719 feet above sea level.

Romulus within Seneca County

Then and now

1902 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Romulus, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Romulus, surveyed 1902

Population over time

2 figures

Romulus fell from 409 to 356 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
2010409
2020356-53 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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

45 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Romulus between 2000 and 2019, burning about 35 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined18
Arson/incendiarism14
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
20 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
6 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Seneca County

Storms near this place

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Romulus in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash 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
June 2015Thunderstorm WindRomulus$20,000A severe thunderstorm moved across the area which resulted in several trees falling down across the area. Two homes were damaged due to falling trees.
August 2007HailRomulus$10,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindRomulus$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees and wires in Romulus.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindRomulus$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down wires on County Road 129.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindRomulus$4,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindRomulus$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and wires.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindRomulus$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down wires from the second severe storm that moved through the area.
June 2024Flash FloodRomulus$1,000Water was flooding portions of County Road 129 east of Romulus.
May 2013HailRomulus-no account filed
June 2009HailRomulus-no account filed
June 2007HailRomulus-no account filed
August 2007HailRomulus-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Seneca 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
Marsh Corner2.4 miles25
McDuffie Town2.5 miles22
Kendaia2.9 miles24
East Varick3.6 miles22
Sampson3.9 miles24
Poplar Beach4.2 miles25
MacDougall4.5 miles24
Fayette4.5 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 RomulusAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20065038The 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 962847. 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.