Amalgamated Dwellings, New York

The same ground, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1889 1995

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 within a mile 12 of 47 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Tenement Building at 97 Orchard StreetNational Historic Landmark · listed 1992 · 0.5 miles away
• Eldridge Street SynagogueNational Historic Landmark · listed 1980 · 0.6 miles away
• Alfred E. Smith HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1972 · 0.8 miles away
• Bialystoker Synagoguelisted 1972 · 0.0 miles away
• Henry Street Settlement and Neighborhood Playhouselisted 1974 · 0.1 miles away
• St. Augustine's Chapellisted 1980 · 0.1 miles away
• Lower East Side Historic District (Boundary Increase)listed 2006 · 0.1 miles away
• Gouverneur Hospitallisted 1982 · 0.3 miles away
• Beth Hamedrash Hagodol Synagoguelisted 1999 · 0.3 miles away
• Lower East Side Historic Districtlisted 2000 · 0.3 miles away
• Stanton Street Shullisted 2002 · 0.4 miles away
• US Post Office-Knickerbocker Stationlisted 1989 · 0.5 miles away

Every listing in New York County

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.

• 1889 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
• 1891 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1898 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
• 1900 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500, 11 printings
• 1947 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:24000
• 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1967 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1995 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,484 fires within 5 miles of Amalgamated Dwellings between 1995 and 2020, burning about 436 acres in total. 99 started naturally. 110 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Hillman Housing
• Henry Street Settlement
• Hester - Allen Turnkey Housing
• Lower East Side
• Chinatown
• East Village

Every fire recorded in New York County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Amalgamated Dwellings: 6 occurrences, 5 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Graphite, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in New York County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2080625. 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.