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Roxbury, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Roxbury town. It lies in ZIP code area 12474. It stands on Pleasant Valley Brook. The Survey maps it on the Roxbury quadrangle. 2,247 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,506 feet above sea level.

Roxbury within Delaware County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

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 Roxbury, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Roxbury, surveyed 1904

On record in Roxbury

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 8 records

Population over time

2 figures

Roxbury fell from 2,502 to 2,247 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
20102,502
20202,247-255 (-10%)

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

35 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Roxbury between 1997 and 2016, burning about 34 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined14
Debris and open burning10
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 July 2009Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 June 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
13 June 2008Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 May 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roxbury in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 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
June 2021Flash FloodRoxbury$30,000Town officials reported severe washouts at Teichmann Road and South Mongomery Hollow Road in the Town of Roxbury.
June 2025Flash FloodRoxbury$2,000The road was closed along Route 30 near Hubbell Corners Road due to flooding.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindRoxbury$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked wires down.
July 2010HailRoxbury-Dime to penny size hail was reported.

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
Hubbell Corners1.3 miles17
West Settlement2.6 miles17
Vega2.7 miles17
Hardscrabble2.7 miles17
Denver4.9 miles20
Halcottsville5.6 miles20
Grand Gorge (historical)5.9 miles17
Bedell6.2 miles20

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 RoxburyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3708265The 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 963058. 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.