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Tribes Hill, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mohawk town. It lies in ZIP code area 12177. It stands on Schoharie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tribes Hill quadrangle. 937 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 420 feet above sea level.

Tribes Hill within Montgomery County

Then and now

1896 to 1985

The 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 sheet of Tribes Hill, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Tribes Hill, surveyed 1896

On record in Tribes Hill

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 figures

Tribes Hill fell from 1,003 to 937 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
20101,003
2020937-66 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

123 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Tribes Hill between 2001 and 2020, burning about 94 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 16 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/undetermined65
Debris and open burning19
Arson/incendiarism16
Smoking11
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
29 September 2017Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
29 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2017Arson/incendiarism2.4 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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 Tribes Hill: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Platinum, Nickel. 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
FondaPlatinum, NickelOccurrenceUnknown

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

16 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tribes Hill in 16 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 1 tornado, 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
May 2003Tornado (F0)Tribes Hill$25,000no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindTribes Hill-A large tree was downed and power was out at the intersection of Mohawk Drive and James Street in Tribes Hill.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindTribes Hill-Large tree branches were downed on many properties along Mohawk Drive in Tribes Hill.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindTribes Hill-Multiple large tree branches downed near Tribes Hill and some siding was ripped off of a house.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindTribes Hill-Trees were downed on wires on Stoner Trail.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindTribes Hill-Trees were downed.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindTribes Hill-Tree and wires downed.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindTribes Hill-Tree downed on wires along Maple Ave in the town of Tribes Hill.
June 2014Flash FloodTribes Hill-Route 67 was closed from Fort Johnson to Fulton-Montgomery Community College due to flash flooding from heavy rain from thunderstorms. A mudslide occurred along McDonald Drive as well. One home along Noonan Road in Fort Johnson partially collapsed due to flooding and the residents had to be evacuated.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindTribes Hill-Tree limbs were reported down and on wires on Mohawk Drive in Tribes Hill due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindTribes Hill-One tree was reported down due to thunderstorm winds near Johnstown.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindTribes Hill-A tree was reported down and blocking a road in front of the Tribes Hill Fire Department in Tribes Hill due to thunderstorm winds.
September 2011FloodTribes Hill-Route 67 from the Johnstown City line to Route 5 was closed due to flooding.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindTribes Hill-Trees and wires were reported down approximately 5 miles west of Amsterdam due to strong thunderstorm winds.
April 2006FloodTribes Hill-On April 23 at 3 PM EST, the Mohawk River crested at 284.0 feet at Tribes Hill. Flood stage is 281.0 feet.
November 2006FloodTribes Hill-The Mohawk River at Tribes Hill exceeded its flood stage of 281.0 feet at 5:03 AM EST on November 17th, crested at 281.20 feet at 8:10 AM EST on the 17th, before falling back below flood stage at 1:56 PM EST on the 17th.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Fort Hunter0.9 miles20
Church Corners1.6 miles20
Auriesville2.4 miles20
Fort Johnson2.8 miles26
Fultonville4.5 miles20
Fonda4.8 miles21
South Amsterdam4.9 miles26
Glen5.3 miles20

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 Tribes HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q9089773The 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 967803. 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.