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Saugerties, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Saugerties town. It lies in ZIP code area 12477. It stands on Tannery Brook. The Survey maps it on the Saugerties quadrangle. 3,899 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 154 feet above sea level.

Saugerties within Ulster County

Then and now

1895 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 102 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Saugerties, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Saugerties, surveyed 1895

Compare 1895 against another survey:

On record in Saugerties

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 12 records

Population over time

2 figures

Saugerties fell from 3,971 to 3,899 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
20103,971
20203,899-72 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 29 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

258 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 258 fires within 5 miles of Saugerties between 1997 and 2020, burning about 194 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 35 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/undetermined128
Arson/incendiarism35
Debris and open burning25
Smoking18
Equipment and vehicle use18
Natural11
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Fireworks4
Other causes4
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
29 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Saugerties: 19 producers, 14 past producers. 19 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Limestone, General, Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mt. MarionBloating MaterialProducerSedimentary
Paul Blum Cementon PlantGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Quarryville Blue Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Saugerties Blue Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Cementon Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Saugerties Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
West Camp Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Duffy's PitClayProducer
Glasco Clay PitClayProducer
Glasco Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this place

29 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saugerties in 29 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 17 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 2 lightning, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2003LightningSaugerties$100,000no account filed
September 1999Flash FloodSaugerties$100,000no account filed
September 1993Tornado (F1)Saugerties$50,000Severe thunderstorms developed behind a cold front as cold air funneled across eastern New York on the afternoon of September 10th. Thunderstorm winds downed trees in St. Johnsville and Halfmoon and large tree limbs in Waterford. In Hebron lightning struck a black locust tree, shattering the tree which broke windows in a nearby house. In Saugerties a small F1 tornado touched down tearing half the roof off a house and uprooting some trees.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindSaugerties$50,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindSaugerties$30,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindSaugerties$12,000no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindSaugerties$10,000no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindSaugerties$10,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindSaugerties$8,000no account filed
March 2024FloodSaugerties$5,000Some basement flooding was reported in the town of Saugerties.
August 2018Flash FloodSaugerties$5,000High water resulted in a vehicle becoming stranded with the motorist trapped inside. The road was closed. No injuries were reported.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindSaugerties$5,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindSaugerties$5,000no account filed
September 1993Thunderstorm WindSaugerties$5,000no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindSaugerties$4,000no account filed
August 2020Flash FloodSaugerties-Market Street was closed due to flooding.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindSaugerties-Trees were downed on Lighthouse and Clermont Streets.
August 2020Flash FloodSaugerties-Bennett Avenue was closed due to flooding.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindSaugerties-A large portion of a tree was downed.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindSaugerties-A tree was downed.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSaugerties-Trees and power lines were downed in Malden along Main Street, York Street and Fiero Street due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindSaugerties-Trees were downed and on wires on Washington Avenue in the village of Saugerties between Russell Street and Division Street due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2014Flash FloodSaugerties-Heavy rain from thunderstorms led to flash flooding in Saugerties. U.S. Route 9W and State Route 32 South (Partition Street) were closed, as they were impassable due to high water.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindSaugerties-Law enforcement personnel reported that trees and wires were blown down in Saugerties.
July 2005Flash FloodSaugerties-Road closures due to flooding.
May 2004HailSaugerties-Hail observed on Rt 212 between Saugerties and Woodstock.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindSaugerties-Trees and wires down.
July 2004LightningSaugerties-At least one tree struck by lightning. Lightning also struck at least one power line, causing wires to burn.
May 2018HailSaugerties-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ulster 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
Canoe Hill1.3 miles29
Malden-on-Hudson1.6 miles29
Veteran2.2 miles29
Glasco2.4 miles29
Katsbaan2.4 miles29
Eavesport2.9 miles29
Glenerie3.2 miles29
Mount Marion3.2 miles29

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 SaugertiesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3461248The 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 964502. 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.