Windsor, New York
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Windsor town. It lies in ZIP code area 13865. It stands on Sanford Creek. The Survey maps it on the Windsor quadrangle. 907 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 951 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1905 to 1985The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Windsor
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 2 records
Windsor Village Historic Districtlisted 1980- Jedediah Hotchkiss Houselisted 1982
Population over time
2 figuresWindsor fell from 916 to 907 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 | 916 | |
| 2020 | 907 | -9 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 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.
- 1905 USGS Nineveh quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Windsor quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
77 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Windsor between 1993 and 2020, burning about 188 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 4 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 | 35 |
| Debris and open burning | 21 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 7 August 2015 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 5 July 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | WINDSOR |
| 26 June 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 12 June 2016 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 8 May 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 May 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | WINDSOR |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Windsor: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Graphite, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Franklin Graphite Mine | Graphite | Past Producer | ||
| Windsor Town Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
27 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Windsor in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 18 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2001 | Lightning | Windsor | 1 hurt | Newspaper reports indicate a house on Stratmill Road was struck by lightning, slightly injuring one man inside. |
| June 2006 | Flood | Windsor | $5,000,000 | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Flash Flood | Windsor | $1,000,000 | Heavy rain caused flash flooding in eastern Broome County. Roads were flooded. At 10:48 PM EDT roads and bridges were closed in Windsor. Creeks were over their banks. A trailer park located on old Route 17 flooded. An hour later also in Windsor, numerous roads were washed out. State Highway 17 was flooded and closed in one direction between exits 79 and 80. A woman had to be rescued on Ostrander Road from a partially submerged car. The trailer park was completely inundated with water. Some of the trailers had water in the first floors. Rainfall amounts were 3 to 4 inches. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Windsor | $10,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees on Frost Road. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | $10,000 | A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds which uprooted or snapped more than 10 trees trees on Ouaquaga Road. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Windsor | $10,000 | Trees were blown down. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Windsor | $8,000 | Thunderstorms winds damaged the siding and porch of a house. Window fans and a window air conditioner was also damaged. This was an isolated incident. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | $5,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a tree on Brown Road. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Windsor | $5,000 | A roof was blown off a shed. A camping trailer was blown off its supports at Forest Lake Campground. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed trees along State Route 79. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | $3,000 | Trees and wires were blown down. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | $2,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a couple of trees at Bridge Street and Chapel Street Intersection. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | $2,000 | Trees were blown down. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | $2,000 | Trees were blown down on Kent Street and Route 79. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | $2,000 | Many trees and power lines were blown down. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | $1,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree near Windsor. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | $1,000 | A few trees were blown down. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | $1,000 | Trees down on route 79 in Ouaquaga. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Windsor | - | Several trees were blown down. One tree fell on a car. |
| April 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | - | Trees and powerlines down on Blatchley road. |
| June 2000 | Hail | Windsor | - | Dime size hail was reported by storm spotters in Windsor. |
| September 2022 | Hail | West Windsor | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Windsor | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | West Windsor | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Windsor | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Windsor | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Damascus | 2.1 miles | 17 | |
| East Windsor | 3.0 miles | 17 | |
| Occanum | 3.1 miles | 16 | |
| Flowers | 3.4 miles | 16 | |
| South Windsor | 3.5 miles | 17 | |
| Ouaquaga | 3.5 miles | 14 | |
| Edson | 3.6 miles | 16 | |
| Mount Carmel | 4.6 miles | 17 |
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 Windsor | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3461044 | 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 971474. 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.






