Salisbury Mills, New York
35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Blooming Grove town. It lies in ZIP code area 12577. The Survey maps it on the Cornwall-on-Hudson quadrangle. 580 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 308 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1902 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1902 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresSalisbury Mills grew from 536 to 580 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 | 536 | |
| 2020 | 580 | +44 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 35 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.
- 1902 USGS Schunemunk quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
- 1930 USGS Schunemunk quadrangle1:48000
- 1930 USGS Schunemunk quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1935 USGS Schunemunk quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Cornwall quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Cornwall quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Middletown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Cornwall-on-Hudson quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
425 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 425 fires within 5 miles of Salisbury Mills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 713 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 47 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 | 253 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 47 |
| Debris and open burning | 26 |
| Natural | 21 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 21 |
| Smoking | 19 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Fireworks | 15 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 8 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.8 acres | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 8 September 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 5 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 30 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 3 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Salisbury Mills: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Townsend Canterbury Mine | Iron | Past Producer | Residual |
Storms near this place
4 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Salisbury Mills in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Salisbury Mills | $10,000 | Tree and wires down on a house. |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Salisbury Mills | $3,000 | Tree and wires down at Woodcock Mountain Road and Adelaide Lane in Salisbury Mills NY. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Salisbury Mills | $3,000 | Trees down on wires on Clove Road. Reports of power outages around town. |
| August 2011 | Flood | Salisbury Mills | - | Moodna Creek overflowed its banks resulting in water rescues at Udderly Fresh Farms on Rt. 94 near Farmview Ln. in Washingtonville. In addition, the raging waters from the creek burst holes in the foundations of houses on Patricia and Beverly Lanes and inundated the Washingtonville Manor and Brookside Acres mobile home parks, south of Main St. The surge of water also engulfed the first floor of a residence on Cardinal Dr. forcing the homeowners to retreat to the second floor. The water rose a half of a foot into the second story. Rt. 94 near Goshen Ave. was also closed due to flooding. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Downey Farms | 1.1 miles | 35 | |
| Beaver Dam Lake | 1.2 miles | 35 | |
| Denniston | 2.2 miles | 35 | |
| Meadowbrook | 2.3 miles | 35 | |
| Woodfield | 2.4 miles | 31 | |
| Washingtonville | 2.5 miles | 31 | |
| West Cornwall | 2.7 miles | 35 | |
| Mountainville | 3.0 miles | 35 |
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 Salisbury Mills | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6117311 | 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 964306. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.












