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.
Then and now
1903 to 1986The 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.


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
First Presbyterian Churchlisted 1979- Wild's Mill Complexlisted 1982
- Nathan Wild Houselisted 1991
Population over time
2 figuresValatie 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,819 | |
| 2020 | 1,785 | -34 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 21 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.
- 1903 USGS Kinderhook quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1933 USGS Kinderhook quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Kinderhook quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Kinderhook quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Kinderhook quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Pittsfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
129 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 45 |
| Debris and open burning | 31 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 21 |
| Natural | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 26 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 23 September 2010 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 20 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 19 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 15 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 25 August 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
24 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Valatie | $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Valatie | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Valatie | $4,000 | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Valatie | - | 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Valatie | - | Wires were downed along U.S. Route 9 near Harris Drive in the Town of Kinderhook. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Valatie | - | A tree and wires were downed on Hemlock Street in the Town of Kinderhook. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Valatie | - | Tree and wire damage was reported along Marion Boulevard in the Village of Valatie. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Valatie | - | Multiple trees were reported down around the Village of Valatie. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Valatie | - | Multiple trees were reported down. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Valatie | - | Trees and wires were downed onto Old Post Road and Route 9H. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Valatie | - | A tree was downed on Route 203 and Fairway Drive. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Valatie | - | Several reports of trees down in Valatie. |
| October 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Valatie | - | A tree and wires were downed onto a vehicle. |
| October 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Valatie | - | A tree, wires and pole were downed. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Valatie | - | A tree was downed across a road. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Valatie | - | Trees and wires were reported down on Kinderhook Street in the village of Valatie as a result of thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Valatie | - | Trees were downed at 180 Maple Lane in the town of Kinderhook as a result of thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Valatie | - | A tree and wires were reported down in Valatie due to thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Valatie | - | Trees were reported down on Pinot Ranch Road in Valatie due to thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Valatie | - | A member of the public reported hail of 2.00 inches in diameter fell from a thunderstorm in Valatie. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Valatie | - | Penny size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Valatie. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Valatie | - | Nickel size hail was reported in Valatie during a thunderstorm. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Valatie | - | Trees were reported down in Valatie as a result of strong thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Valatie | - | Quarter size hail was reported in Valatie during a thunderstorm. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dwarf Orchard Park | 1.3 miles | 21 | |
| Valatie Colony | 1.6 miles | 21 | |
| Kinderhook | 1.8 miles | 21 | |
| Niverville | 2.0 miles | 21 | |
| Golden Acres | 3.0 miles | 21 | |
| Chatham Center | 3.2 miles | 21 | |
| Sunnyside | 3.9 miles | 21 | |
| North Chatham | 4.6 miles | 21 |
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 Valatie | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3458039 | 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 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.










