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Warrensburg, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Warrensburg town. It lies in ZIP code area 12885. It lies near Hackensack Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Warrensburg quadrangle. 3,045 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 745 feet above sea level.

Warrensburg within Warren County

Then and now

1903 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Warrensburg, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Warrensburg, surveyed 1903

On record in Warrensburg

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

3 figures

Warrensburg fell from 3,208 to 3,045 between 2000 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
20003,208
20103,103-105 (-3%)
20203,045-58 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 24 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

164 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Warrensburg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 198 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined44
Debris and open burning31
Arson/incendiarism19
Recreation and ceremony17
Natural16
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking11
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Other causes1

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
6 September 2015Smoking1.9 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2009Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNew York Forest RangersSTONY CREEK RD
2 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Warrensburg: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Graphite, Iron, Granite, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Parker MineGarnetPast Producer1892, 1897
Toney PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed OccurrenceIronOccurrence1922
Unnamed OccurrenceGranitePast ProducerMetamorphic
Mammoth Cave ProspectGraphiteOccurrence1925, 1975
Mammoth Cave ProspectGraphiteProspect
Pottersville ProspectGraphiteProspect

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Warrensburg in 27 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 14 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 5 flood, 2 lightning. 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
January 2018FloodWarrensburg$1,000,000Flooding occurred along the Hudson River between Warrensburg and The Glen due to an ice jam. People were stranded in houses on Glen Creek Road and one family was evacuated. The water eroded a portion of River Road in the town of Thurman and flooded the Glen Hudson campsite, prompting an evacuation of the owners. The water and ice also spread onto Cronin's Golf Course. To the south, water and ice flowed over the Route 418 bridge, resulting in an extended closure for the better part of 12 days. Stony Creek Road was also flooded near Cameron Road.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindWarrensburg$92,000no account filed
May 1993Thunderstorm WindWarrensburg$50,000no account filed
December 2023FloodWarrensburg$25,000The Schroon River rose to moderate flood stage resulting in flooding and washouts along Schroon River Road and East Schroon River Road near Warrensburg.
May 1997LightningWarrensburg$20,000Lightning destroyed a head start classroom and office building on the Warrensburg Elementary School Campus during the afternoon of May 9.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindWarrensburg$8,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindWarrensburg$5,000Severe thunderstorms moved across parts of eastern New York ahead of a low pressure system which was moving into the area during the afternoon hours of July 30th. Thunderstorm winds downed trees and powerlines with Washington and Herkimer Counties being hardest hit. In Colonie torrential rains resulted in an urban flood as storm drains backed up.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindWarrensburg$5,000no account filed
March 2026FloodWarrensburg$3,500Warren County Emergency Managers, with the help of local broadcast media partners, reported that at 10 A.M. on Thursday, March 12th, an ice jam that had accumulated near the Route 28 Bridge at The Glen in Johnsburg, NY broke free and rapidly flowed downstream. Large chunks of ice were swiftly carried downstream towards the towns of Thurman and Warrensburg. In the town of Warrensburg, portions of the Warren County Fish Hatchery become inundated with large pieces of ice and water from a nearby branch off the Hudson River. The ice jam flooding impacted some of the facility's land for several days.
December 2023FloodWarrensburg$2,000Schroon River Road (County Route 10) in Warrensburg was closed due to flooding.
September 2010LightningWarrensburg$1,000A pole was reported burning on Schroon River Road in Warrensburg due to a lightning strike.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindWarrensburg-A report of a downed tree in Warrensburg was relayed to NWS Albany via social media.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindWarrensburg-An Amateur Radio operator reported trees down in the vicinity of the Lake George Escape Campground.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindWarrensburg-Trees and wires were reported down in Warrensburg as a result of thunderstorm winds.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindWarrensburg-Trees and wires were reported down in Warrensburg due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindWarrensburg-Trees and branches were downed along Route 418 in the town of Thurman due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWarrensburg-Multiple trees were reported down at Camp Echo Lake in Warrensburg with one falling on a camping vehicle as a result of thunderstorm winds.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWarrensburg-Trees were reported down on Route 9 in Warrensburg as a result of thunderstorm winds.
October 2013Thunderstorm WindWarrensburg-Trees and power lines were reported down in Warrensburg as a result of thunderstorm winds.
October 2012HailWarrensburg-Hail up to size of quarters was reported during a thunderstorm in Warrensburg. Most of the hail stones were around one half inch in diameter.
May 2011Flash FloodWarrensburg-The Northway, Interstate 87, was closed between Exits 23 and 25 due to water and debris covering the road. The southbound lanes were re-opened just before 6:30 pm EDT, however the northbound lanes remained closed until 9:30 pm EDT.
May 2011HailWarrensburg-Golf ball size hail was reported in Warrensburg during a thunderstorm.
May 2006FloodWarrensburg-On May 1, at Riverbank, the Schroon River had some lingering flooding from heavy rainfall during the last week in April. The water level dropped below the 7-foot Riverbank flood stage at 18:45 EST.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindWarrensburg-Trees and powerlines were blown down county-wide.
May 2019HailWarrensburg-no account filed
September 2000HailWarrensburg-no account filed
May 1993HailWarrensburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Athol3.5 miles24
Big Hollow4.5 miles24
Diamond Point4.9 miles29
Lake George5.9 miles29
Bolton6.4 miles30
Crosbyside6.9 miles29
Cleverdale7.2 miles29
The Glen7.6 miles25

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 WarrensburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3456910The 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 968825. 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.