Astoria, New York

The same ground, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1891 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 2 records

• Astoria Center of Israellisted 2009
• Bohemian Hall and Parklisted 2001

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.

• 1891 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1898 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500
• 1900 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500, 16 printings
• 1947 USGS Central Park quadrangle1:24000
• 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Central Park 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
• 1966 USGS Central Park quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1995 USGS Central Park quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,107 fires within 5 miles of Astoria between 1995 and 2020, burning about 530 acres in total. 135 started naturally. 125 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:

• Steinway
• Charlotteville (historical)
• Garden Bay Manor
• Elmhurst
• Long Island City
• Blissville

Every fire recorded in Queens County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Astoria: 10 occurrences, 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Garnet, Beryllium. 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 Queens County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 942661. 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.