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Baldwin, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Hempstead town. It lies in ZIP code area 11510. The Survey maps it on the Freeport quadrangle. 33,919 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 23 feet above sea level.

Baldwin within Nassau County

Then and now

1897 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Baldwin, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Baldwin, surveyed 1897

Compare 1897 against another survey:

On record in Baldwin

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Baldwin grew from 24,033 to 33,919 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
201024,033
202033,919+9,886 (+41%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 29 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

878 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 878 fires within 5 miles of Baldwin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 367 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 94 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/undetermined559
Smoking99
Arson/incendiarism94
Power generation/transmission/distribution33
Natural30
Equipment and vehicle use29
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Debris and open burning11
Recreation and ceremony5
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2015Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Baldwin: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Wollastonite, Garnet. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
DeersheadWollastonite, GarnetOccurrenceWollastonite

Every working recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this place

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baldwin in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 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
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBaldwin$7,000Large tree limb fell down onto SUV causing damage on Atlantic Avenue in Oceanside.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBaldwin$1,000Tree down on Lincoln Avenue at Aldred Avenue reported by Nassau County Traffic Management.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindBaldwin$1,000Power lines were reported down on Rockaway Avenue in Oceanside.
August 2018Flash FloodBaldwin-Intersections in the village of Rockville Center were under moving water.
July 2016Flash FloodBaldwin-Foxhurst Road in Oceanside was impassable due to flooding.
August 2010Flash FloodBaldwin-A vehicle became stuck in flood waters on Long Beach Rd. between Sunrise Hwy. and Merrick Rd. in Rockville Centre. The occupant of the vehicle was rescued by the local fire department.
June 2004Flash FloodBaldwin-Torrential rains resulted in flash flooding of several streets in Baldwin.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindBaldwin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nassau 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
Millburn0.6 miles29
Baldwin Harbor1.2 miles29
Freeport1.4 miles29
Rockville Centre1.7 miles29
South Hempstead1.7 miles29
Roosevelt1.9 miles29
Bay Colony2.0 miles29
Oceanside2.0 miles29

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 BaldwinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q607108The 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 942888. 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.