Upper Nyack, New York
39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Clarkstown town. It lies in ZIP code area 10960. It lies near Hook Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Nyack quadrangle. 2,015 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 190 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1892 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Upper Nyack
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 4 records
Brooksidelisted 2012
First Methodist Episcopal Church of Nyacklisted 1998
Shadowclifflisted 2014
Upper Nyack Firehouselisted 1982
Population over time
2 figuresUpper Nyack fell from 2,063 to 2,015 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 | 2,063 | |
| 2020 | 2,015 | -48 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
16 surveys from 39 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.
- 1892 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1902 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500, 11 printings
- 1937 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:24000
- 1937 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
- 1940 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:24000
- 1942 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:31680
- 1943 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
1,411 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,411 fires within 5 miles of Upper Nyack between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,386 acres in total. 100 started naturally. 76 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 | 872 |
| Smoking | 199 |
| Natural | 100 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 76 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 64 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 49 |
| Debris and open burning | 39 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 9 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 8 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 8 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 8 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 8 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 8 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Upper Nyack: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Copper, Silver, Iron, Chromium, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sing Sing Ag Mine | Lead, Silver, Iron, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Sing Sing Silver Mine | Lead, Copper, Silver, Iron, Chromium, Phosphorus-Phosphates | Past Producer | Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Silver | |
| Sparta Copper Deposit | Copper, Lead | Occurrence | ||
| Haverstraw Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Haverstraw Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| West Nyack Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| West Nyack Quarry and Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Upper Nyack in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2013 | Lightning | Upper Nyack | 1 hurt | Lightning struck a home in Airmont, causing a man to move across an interior room. He was not injured. Lightning also tore off shingles and bowed a wall of a neighboring house. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Upper Nyack | $10,000 | Multiple reports of downed trees (and branches) and power lines in the town of Valley Cottage. Some locations include Milburn Court and Flower Lane, Kings Highway between Maple and Old Mill, and Old Mill and Boxberger. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Upper Nyack | $5,000 | A line of substantial trees were damaged that runs several streets through a neighborhood near Radcliff Drive in Upper Nyack NY. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Upper Nyack | $3,000 | Large tree uprooted, pulling up the sidewalk with power lines down on North Broadway. |
| August 2024 | Hail | Upper Nyack | - | Public reports 1 inch hail near Radcliff Drive in Upper Nyack NY. |
| March 2009 | Hail | Upper Nyack | - | Quarter size hail was reported by a trained spotter. |
| August 2008 | Flash Flood | Upper Nyack | - | Rockland Lake Rd. was impassable in Valley Cottage. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nyack | 1.1 miles | 39 | |
| South Nyack | 1.6 miles | 39 | |
| Central Nyack | 1.8 miles | 39 | |
| Valley Cottage | 2.0 miles | 39 | |
| Rockland Lake | 2.3 miles | 36 | |
| West Nyack | 2.9 miles | 39 | |
| Grand View-on-Hudson | 3.0 miles | 39 | |
| Congers | 3.3 miles | 36 |
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 Upper Nyack | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3452792 | 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 968288. 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.















