Schenevus, New York
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Maryland town. It lies in ZIP code area 12155. It stands on Sparrowhawk Brook. The Survey maps it on the Schenevus quadrangle. 494 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,266 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1907 to 1985The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Schenevus
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
Population over time
2 figuresSchenevus fell from 551 to 494 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 | 551 | |
| 2020 | 494 | -57 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 19 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.
- 1907 USGS Cooperstown quadrangle1:62500
- 1909 USGS Cooperstown quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1943 USGS Schenevus quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1945 USGS Schenevus quadrangle1:31680
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
41 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Schenevus between 2003 and 2016, burning about 54 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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/undetermined | 29 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2015 | Other causes | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 8 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 9 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 27 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 7 June 2005 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 27 June 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 19 June 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Schenevus in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Schenevus | 1 hurt, $2,500 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto a vehicle, injuring the driver. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Schenevus | $5,000 | A severe thunderstorm produced severe winds as it moved across the area. The thunderstorm resulted in trees being knocked over. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Schenevus | $5,000 | Powerlines downed by strong thunderstorm winds. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Schenevus | $5,000 | Severe thunderstorms moved across parts of eastern New York ahead of a strong cold front during the afternoon of July 26th. Thunderstorm winds as high as 80 mph downed thousands of trees which fell on homes, vehicles, and powerlines. In Saratoga County alone 20,000 customers were left without electricity. Among the hardest hit areas were Greenfield Center, Wilton, Northumberland, Saratoga Springs, and Fort Miller. At the Saratoga Spa State Park some 1,500 trees were uprooted or damaged. Some of the trees fell on cars and on the grounds of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center forcing cancellation of a concert. In Greenfield Center extensive damage occurred at the Utters Mobile Estates where at least five mobile homes sustained significant damage when trees fell on them. In Fort Miller dozens of trees were uprooted or snapped off with some of the trees falling on homes while in Argyle a mobile home was flipped over. Torrential rains during the storms resulted in urban flooding in Amsterdam, Saratoga Springs, Fort Edward, and Fort Miller. Lightning was also a problem as a farmer and his daughter were injured when struck by lightning while on a farm tractor in Northumberland and a horse was struck and killed by lightning in Chatham. |
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Schenevus | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Schenevus | $1,500 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto a house. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Schenevus | $1,000 | Strong thunderstorms winds knocked a tree down onto wires. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Schenevus | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Schenevus | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Schenevus | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chaseville | 2.0 miles | 19 | |
| Elk Creek | 2.9 miles | 19 | |
| Maryland | 3.6 miles | 19 | |
| Tuscan | 3.8 miles | 19 | |
| South Worcester | 4.3 miles | 17 | |
| Worcester | 4.8 miles | 19 | |
| Westville | 6.3 miles | 19 | |
| Westford | 7.1 miles | 18 |
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 Schenevus | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6122376 | 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 964574. 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.









