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Stamford, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Stamford town. It lies in ZIP code area 12167. It lies near Churchill Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Stamford quadrangle. 1,040 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,818 feet above sea level.

Stamford within Delaware County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Stamford, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Stamford, surveyed 1904

On record in Stamford

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Stamford fell from 1,119 to 1,040 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
20101,119
20201,040-79 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

57 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Stamford between 1999 and 2020, burning about 103 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined23
Natural11
Arson/incendiarism9
Debris and open burning5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
21 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 July 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
6 June 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 June 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 June 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 Delaware County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Stamford: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Town of Harpersfield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this place

8 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stamford in 8 storm reports between 2005 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2020Thunderstorm WindStamford$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees on powerlines along Railroad Avenue.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindStamford$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees and powerlines on Terry Road.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindStamford$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees across Highway 10.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindStamford$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires.
June 2025Flash FloodStamford$2,000Flooding was occurring near the intersection of Odell Lake Road and State Route 23.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindStamford$2,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree and wires.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindStamford-Trees and wires were blown down.
June 2005HailStamford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
Hobart3.9 miles16
Harpersfield4.4 miles16
West Harpersfield6.1 miles16
North Harpersfield6.1 miles16
Hardscrabble6.2 miles17
Grand Gorge (historical)6.6 miles17
North Kortright6.9 miles16
South Kortright7.1 miles16

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 StamfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2836455The 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 966210. 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.