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Valatie, New York

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Kinderhook town. It lies in ZIP code area 12184. It stands on Valatie Kill. The Survey maps it on the Kinderhook quadrangle. 1,785 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 240 feet above sea level.

Valatie within Columbia County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Valatie, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Valatie, surveyed 1903

On record in Valatie

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Valatie fell from 1,819 to 1,785 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
20101,819
20201,785-34 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

129 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Valatie between 1992 and 2020, burning about 207 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 21 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/undetermined45
Debris and open burning31
Arson/incendiarism21
Natural13
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2010Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

24 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Valatie in 24 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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 1998Thunderstorm WindValatie$15,000no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindValatie$10,000no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindValatie$4,000no account filed
May 2025Thunderstorm WindValatie-A local emergency manager reported numerous downed trees around the Kinderhook and Valatie areas, concentrated in the Hemlock Street and Maple Lane South vicinity.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindValatie-Wires were downed along U.S. Route 9 near Harris Drive in the Town of Kinderhook.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindValatie-A tree and wires were downed on Hemlock Street in the Town of Kinderhook.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindValatie-Tree and wire damage was reported along Marion Boulevard in the Village of Valatie.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindValatie-Multiple trees were reported down around the Village of Valatie.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindValatie-Multiple trees were reported down.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindValatie-Trees and wires were downed onto Old Post Road and Route 9H.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindValatie-A tree was downed on Route 203 and Fairway Drive.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindValatie-Several reports of trees down in Valatie.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindValatie-A tree and wires were downed onto a vehicle.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindValatie-A tree, wires and pole were downed.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindValatie-A tree was downed across a road.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindValatie-Trees and wires were reported down on Kinderhook Street in the village of Valatie as a result of thunderstorm winds.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindValatie-Trees were downed at 180 Maple Lane in the town of Kinderhook as a result of thunderstorm winds.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindValatie-A tree and wires were reported down in Valatie due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindValatie-Trees were reported down on Pinot Ranch Road in Valatie due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2013HailValatie-A member of the public reported hail of 2.00 inches in diameter fell from a thunderstorm in Valatie.
May 2011HailValatie-Penny size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Valatie.
June 2009HailValatie-Nickel size hail was reported in Valatie during a thunderstorm.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindValatie-Trees were reported down in Valatie as a result of strong thunderstorm winds.
May 2007HailValatie-Quarter size hail was reported in Valatie during a thunderstorm.

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
Dwarf Orchard Park1.3 miles21
Valatie Colony1.6 miles21
Kinderhook1.8 miles21
Niverville2.0 miles21
Golden Acres3.0 miles21
Chatham Center3.2 miles21
Sunnyside3.9 miles21
North Chatham4.6 miles21

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 ValatieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3458039The 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 968342. 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.

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.