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.
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.


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
- Danascara Placelisted 2019
Population over time
2 figuresTribes 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,003 | |
| 2020 | 937 | -66 (-7%) |
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
- 1944 USGS Tribes Hill quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1946 USGS Tribes Hill 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
123 since 2001Regional 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/undetermined | 65 |
| Debris and open burning | 19 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 16 |
| Smoking | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2017 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 29 September 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 22 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 13 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 9 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 August 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.4 acres | 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 |
| 4 August 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 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
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fonda | Platinum, Nickel | Occurrence | Unknown |
Storms near this place
16 since 2003Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Tribes Hill | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tribes Hill | - | A large tree was downed and power was out at the intersection of Mohawk Drive and James Street in Tribes Hill. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tribes Hill | - | Large tree branches were downed on many properties along Mohawk Drive in Tribes Hill. |
| October 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tribes Hill | - | Multiple large tree branches downed near Tribes Hill and some siding was ripped off of a house. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tribes Hill | - | Trees were downed on wires on Stoner Trail. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tribes Hill | - | Trees were downed. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tribes Hill | - | Tree and wires downed. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tribes Hill | - | Tree downed on wires along Maple Ave in the town of Tribes Hill. |
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Tribes 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 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tribes Hill | - | Tree limbs were reported down and on wires on Mohawk Drive in Tribes Hill due to thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tribes Hill | - | One tree was reported down due to thunderstorm winds near Johnstown. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tribes 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 2011 | Flood | Tribes Hill | - | Route 67 from the Johnstown City line to Route 5 was closed due to flooding. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tribes Hill | - | Trees and wires were reported down approximately 5 miles west of Amsterdam due to strong thunderstorm winds. |
| April 2006 | Flood | Tribes 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 2006 | Flood | Tribes 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. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Hunter | 0.9 miles | 20 | |
| Church Corners | 1.6 miles | 20 | |
| Auriesville | 2.4 miles | 20 | |
| Fort Johnson | 2.8 miles | 26 | |
| Fultonville | 4.5 miles | 20 | |
| Fonda | 4.8 miles | 21 | |
| South Amsterdam | 4.9 miles | 26 | |
| Glen | 5.3 miles | 20 |
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 Hill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q9089773 | 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 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.









