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Schoharie, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Schoharie town. It lies in ZIP code area 12157. It stands on Fox Creek. The Survey maps it on the Schoharie quadrangle. 916 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

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Schoharie within Schoharie County

Then and now

1898 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Schoharie, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Schoharie, surveyed 1898

On record in Schoharie

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 of 18 shown

Every listing in Schoharie County

Population over time

3 figures

Schoharie fell from 1,030 to 916 between 2000 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
20001,030
2010922-108 (-10%)
2020916-6 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

98 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Schoharie between 1996 and 2020, burning about 92 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined37
Debris and open burning21
Equipment and vehicle use13
Smoking10
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
29 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
16 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
31 July 2003Debris and open burning2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schoharie County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Schoharie: 4 producers, 3 past producers, 3 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Strontium, Barium-Barite. 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
Schoharie Pyrite DepositSulfur, Barium-BariteOccurrence
Schoharie Strontianite DepositStrontium, Barium-BariteOccurrence
Schoharie Strontianite OccurrenceStrontiumOccurrence
Howes Cave Number 6 QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Masick Quarry and MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Schoharie No. 3 Quarry and MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Howe's Cave Quarry No. 19Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Howes Cave Number 6 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Masick QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Schoharie No. 3 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Schoharie County

Storms near this place

26 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Schoharie in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 22 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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
July 2008Flash FloodSchoharie$50,000Numerous roads were closed across Schoharie County due to flash flooding. These included, but were not limited to, Creek Road to Esperance and to the Montgomery County line, Treadlemire Road to Middleburgh, Junction Road, Zicha Road, Sanatarium Road to Esperance and Schoharie, Benninger Road, Barton Hill Road, Sheldon Road, and portions of Route 30.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindSchoharie$15,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindSchoharie$10,000no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindSchoharie$10,000no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindSchoharie$1,000no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindSchoharie-Wires were downed leading to a brush fire.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindSchoharie-Branches and limbs were down. Also dime size hail was reported.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindSchoharie-Large tree limbs were down at Main St. and Bridge St.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindSchoharie-Trees were downed.
June 2021HailSchoharie-Dime size hail was reported in Schoharie.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindSchoharie-A couple of trees were downed on Schoharie Hill Road near the Village of Schoharie.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindSchoharie-Tree was down onto wires.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindSchoharie-Trees were downed.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindSchoharie-A tree and large tree limbs were downed on Sunnyside Road.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindSchoharie-Two trees were downed.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindSchoharie-Multiple trees and branches were reported down in Schoharie as a result of thunderstorm winds.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindSchoharie-A trained spotter recorded a wind gust of 74 MPH during a thunderstorm in the village of Schoharie. The wind downed one tree at this spotter's location as well.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindSchoharie-A tree and wires were reported down in Schoharie due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindSchoharie-A trees and wires were reported down during a thunderstorm in Schoharie.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindSchoharie-Trees and wires were reported down in Schoharie due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2013Flash FloodSchoharie-Roads were closed within the village of Schoharie due to flash flooding. A state of emergency was declared and travel was strongly discouraged due to debris blocking roadways within the village.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindSchoharie-Trees and wires were reported down due to thunderstorm winds in Schoharie.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindSchoharie-Trees and wires were reported down in Schoharie due to strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2011HailSchoharie-Quarter size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Schoharie.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindSchoharie-Trees were reported down along State Route 443 near Schoharie due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindSchoharie-Large trees and power lines were reported down in Schoharie due to strong thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Schoharie 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
Old Central Bridge3.0 miles22
Shutter Corners3.1 miles22
Central Bridge3.5 miles22
Schoharie Junction4.0 miles22
Gallupville4.1 miles21
Howes Cave4.2 miles22
East Cobleskill4.3 miles22
Middleburgh4.8 miles21

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 SchoharieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q920781The 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 964598. 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.