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Barnum Island, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Hempstead town. It lies in ZIP code area 11558. It stands on Shell Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lawrence quadrangle. 2,590 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Barnum Island within Nassau County

Then and now

1897 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Barnum Island, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Barnum Island, surveyed 1897

Population over time

2 figures

Barnum Island grew from 2,414 to 2,590 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
20102,414
20202,590+176 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

380 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 380 fires within 5 miles of Barnum Island between 1992 and 2020, burning about 174 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 23 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/undetermined270
Smoking39
Arson/incendiarism23
Natural20
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning1
Other causes1

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
7 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.3 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2007Missing 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 Barnum Island: 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

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
Island Park0.6 miles29
Harbor Isle1.1 miles29
North Lynbrook1.1 miles29
Long Beach1.3 miles29
Lido Beach1.5 miles29
Oceanside2.4 miles29
Malverne Park Oaks2.4 miles29
Bay Park2.4 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 Barnum IslandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3476988The 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 1867393. 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.