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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.

Windham within Greene County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Windham, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Windham, surveyed 1901

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

Population over time

2 figures

Windham 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.

YearPeople Change
2010367
2020371+4 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

107 since 1993

Regional 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/undetermined38
Debris and open burning28
Equipment and vehicle use15
Natural11
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking2

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
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2014Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2020Natural1.2 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
31 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

13 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 1996Flash FloodWindham$20,000no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindWindham$10,000no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindWindham$7,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindWindham$5,000no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWindham-Local law enforcement reported trees down in Windham.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindWindham-A tree was reported down.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindWindham-Trees and wires were reported down in Windham due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindWindham-Trees were reported down in Windham due to thunderstorm winds.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindWindham-Trees were reported down due to thunderstorm winds in Windham.
September 2012Flash FloodWindham-Several roads in Windham were reported to have been closed due to flash flooding from heavy rainfall.
August 2011Flash FloodWindham-Route 23 was reported closed due to flooding at Hickory Hill Road in Windham along the Batavia Kill.
December 2010Flash FloodWindham-County Route 12 in Windham was reported closed due to flash flooding.
September 2004Flash FloodWindham-Pond overflowed onto Route 296.

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Hensonville2.2 miles23
Brooksburg2.4 miles23
North Settlement3.0 miles21
Jewett3.7 miles21
Maplecrest4.1 miles23
Ashland4.3 miles21
West Jewett5.1 miles21
East Windham5.3 miles23

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 WindhamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3460035The 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.