Salt Point, New York
29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Pleasant Valley town. It lies in ZIP code area 12578. It stands on Little Wappinger Creek. The Survey maps it on the Salt Point quadrangle. 202 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 250 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1898 to 1993The same ground, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Salt Point
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 1 record
Bloomvale Historic Districtlisted 1991
Population over time
2 figuresSalt Point grew from 190 to 202 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 | 190 | |
| 2020 | 202 | +12 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 29 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.
- 1898 USGS Rhinebeck quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
- 1934 USGS Rhinebeck quadrangle1:62500
- 1934 USGS Rhinebeck quadrangle1:48000
- 1939 USGS Rhinebeck quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Salt Point quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
156 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Salt Point between 1999 and 2020, burning about 113 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 27 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 | 76 |
| Debris and open burning | 29 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 27 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 6 September 2016 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 6 September 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 14 September 2002 | Natural | 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 |
| 11 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 1 September 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 9 August 2016 | Debris and open burning | 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
10 of 19 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Salt Point: 14 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Limestone, General. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Limestone Quarry No. Hj-005 | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Pleasant Valley Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Limestone Quarry No. Hj-0. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Pleasant Valley Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Clinton Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Frank S. Fanelli Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Frank S. Fanelli Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Mountain Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Mountain Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Pleasant Valley Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Salt Point in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 hail. 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 1995 | Hail | Salt Point | - | A warm front and a strong cold front moved across eastern New York during the afternoon and evening hours of May 29th resulting in severe weather across parts of the area. A tornado touched down in Columbia County at 1740 EST just south of Hudson and the first significant damage occurred along Fingar Road in the Town of Greeport where numerous trees, including several 200 year old black walnut trees, were uprooted. Also five people sustained minor injuries when their home collapsed under the weight of fallen trees. As the tornado moved east it caused extensive damage to homes and trees in the towns of Greenport, Claverack, and Hillsdale. The hardest hit areas included Spook Rock Road, Stone Mill Road, Snydertown Road, Bates Road, the Taconic State Parkway, Palmer Road, and Texas Hill Road. The tornado ended along Collins Street in the town of Hillsdale. The tornado destroyed seven homes, with 13 others sustaining major damage and another 29 with minor damage. In addition 30 to 50 outbuildings were either damaged or destroyed. Total damage estimate for the tornado was $10 million. Other areas hard hit by the severe thunderstorms included Unadilla, Bainbridge, and Guilford where trees fell on homes and mobile homes. Also in Hopewell Junction thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees some of which fell on homes along Lake Walton Road and Zerner Boulevard. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherwood | 1.5 miles | 29 | |
| Hibernia | 1.7 miles | 29 | |
| Clinton Corners | 2.3 miles | 29 | |
| Washington Hollow | 2.5 miles | 29 | |
| Clinton Hollow | 2.9 miles | 29 | |
| Gretna | 3.3 miles | 29 | |
| Hickory Hills | 4.5 miles | 29 | |
| Pleasant Valley | 4.5 miles | 34 |
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 Salt Point | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7405915 | 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 964333. 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.











