Windham, New York
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Windham town. It lies in ZIP code area 12496. It lies near Mitchell Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Ashland quadrangle. 371 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,532 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1901 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Windham
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
Centre Presbyterian Churchlisted 1979
Methodist Episcopal Church of Windham Centrelisted 2009
Union Chapellisted 2001
Population over time
2 figuresWindham grew from 367 to 371 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 | 367 | |
| 2020 | 371 | +4 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 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.
- 1901 USGS Gilboa quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Gilboa quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
- 1945 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1946 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
107 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Windham between 1993 and 2020, burning about 232 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 7 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 | 38 |
| Debris and open burning | 28 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 7 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 September 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 24 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 19 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 17 September 2020 | Natural | 1.2 acres | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 31 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 27 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Windham in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1996 | Flash Flood | Windham | $20,000 | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windham | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windham | $7,000 | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windham | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windham | - | Local law enforcement reported trees down in Windham. |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windham | - | A tree was reported down. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windham | - | Trees and wires were reported down in Windham due to thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windham | - | Trees were reported down in Windham due to thunderstorm winds. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windham | - | Trees were reported down due to thunderstorm winds in Windham. |
| September 2012 | Flash Flood | Windham | - | Several roads in Windham were reported to have been closed due to flash flooding from heavy rainfall. |
| August 2011 | Flash Flood | Windham | - | Route 23 was reported closed due to flooding at Hickory Hill Road in Windham along the Batavia Kill. |
| December 2010 | Flash Flood | Windham | - | County Route 12 in Windham was reported closed due to flash flooding. |
| September 2004 | Flash Flood | Windham | - | Pond overflowed onto Route 296. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hensonville | 2.2 miles | 23 | |
| Brooksburg | 2.4 miles | 23 | |
| North Settlement | 3.0 miles | 21 | |
| Jewett | 3.7 miles | 21 | |
| Maplecrest | 4.1 miles | 23 | |
| Ashland | 4.3 miles | 21 | |
| West Jewett | 5.1 miles | 21 | |
| East Windham | 5.3 miles | 23 |
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 Windham | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3460035 | 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 971463. 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.








