Sloansville, New York
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Esperance town. It lies in ZIP code area 12160. It stands on Fly Creek. The Survey maps it on the Esperance quadrangle. It stands 679 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1896 to 1985The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 20 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.
- 1896 USGS Fonda quadrangle1:62500
- 1898 USGS Fonda quadrangle1:62500
- 1902 USGS Fonda quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
- 1943 USGS Esperance quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1946 USGS Esperance 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
69 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Sloansville between 2000 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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 | 34 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 4 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 23 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 16 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 12 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 25 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 10 July 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sloansville: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Strontium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Howe's Cave Quarry No. 19 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Schoharie Strontianite Occurrence | Strontium | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
8 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sloansville in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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 2025 | Flood | Sloansville | $1,000 | A 911 call center operator reported the washout of Bray Road off Route 20. |
| June 1998 | Hail | Sloansville | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sloansville | - | Trees and wires were down on Route 20 and 30A. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sloansville | - | A tree was reported down on Route 20. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sloansville | - | A tree was downed on Junction Road blocking the road. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sloansville | - | Numerous large trees were reported down and uprooted along Route 30A near the intersection of Route 20 in Sloansville due to strong thunderstorn winds. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sloansville | - | Trees and wires were reported down in the Towns of Carlisle and Esperance due to strong thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Sloansville | - | Quarter size hail was reported near Sloansville during a thunderstorm.||The large hail damaged tree fruits, berries and vegetables in the Sloansville area, as well as in other portions of Schoharie County. Total preliminary crop damage estimates from hail in Schoharie County was near $512 thousand. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dwelly Corners | 1.0 miles | 20 | |
| Schoharie Junction | 2.4 miles | 22 | |
| Central Bridge | 3.2 miles | 22 | |
| Grovenor Corners | 3.4 miles | 22 | |
| Old Central Bridge | 3.5 miles | 22 | |
| Esperance | 3.9 miles | 20 | |
| Howes Cave | 5.4 miles | 22 | |
| Carlisle Center | 5.6 miles | 22 |
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 Sloansville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q38249789 | 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 965430. 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.









