Battery Park City, New York

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1898 1986

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 92 shown

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

• American Stock ExchangeNational Historic Landmark · listed 1978 · 0.3 miles away
• Trinity Church and GraveyardNational Historic Landmark · listed 1976 · 0.3 miles away
• St. Paul's ChapelNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966 · 0.4 miles away
• Equitable BuildingNational Historic Landmark · listed 1978 · 0.4 miles away
• New York Stock ExchangeNational Historic Landmark · listed 1978 · 0.4 miles away
• Woolworth BuildingNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966 · 0.4 miles away
• National City BankNational Historic Landmark · listed 1978 · 0.5 miles away
• U.S. CustomhouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1972 · 0.5 miles away
• City HallNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966 · 0.5 miles away
• Tweed CourthouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1974 · 0.6 miles away
• New York Cotton ExchangeNational Historic Landmark · listed 1972 · 0.6 miles away
• A. T. Stewart Company StoreNational Historic Landmark · listed 1978 · 0.6 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.

• 1898 USGS Staten Island quadrangle1:62500
• 1900 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Staten Island quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
• 1905 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1942 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000
• 1944 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1947 USGS Jersey City quadrangle1:24000
• 1949 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Jersey City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1964 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1967 USGS Jersey City quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1984 USGS Newark quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Newark quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,025 fires within 5 miles of Battery Park City between 1995 and 2020, burning about 329 acres in total. 70 started naturally. 84 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:

• Chelsea
• Chinatown
• East Village
• Greenwich Village
• Knickerbocker Village
• Little Italy

Every fire recorded in New York County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Battery Park City: 6 occurrences, 2 producers, 2 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2062658. 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.