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Blissville, New York

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the borough of Queens. It lies in ZIP code area 11101. It lies near Laurel Hill. The Survey maps it on the Brooklyn quadrangle.

Blissville within Queens County

Then and now

1889 to 1995

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.

Topographic sheet of Blissville, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Blissville, surveyed 1889

Compare 1889 against another survey:

On record in Blissville

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 4 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 37 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

2,136 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,136 fires within 5 miles of Blissville between 1995 and 2020, burning about 576 acres in total. 124 started naturally. 132 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/undetermined1450
Smoking139
Arson/incendiarism132
Natural124
Equipment and vehicle use90
Misuse of fire by a minor79
Debris and open burning68
Fireworks23
Recreation and ceremony16
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Other causes2

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Queens County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Blissville: 8 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Garnet, Gemstone, Molybdenum. 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
102nd St & 4th Ave Garnet DepositGarnet, GemstoneOccurrence
49th St & 1st Ave Beryl DepositBerylliumOccurrence
64th St & 10th Ave Stilbite DepositZeolitesOccurrence
69th/70th Sts & 2nd Ave DepositIron, Garnet, TitaniumOccurrence
Manhattan Island OccurrenceMolybdenumOccurrence
2nd St & 4th Ave Siderite DepositIronOccurrence
55th/56th Sts & 3rd Ave DepositIronOccurrence
85th/86th Sts, 9th/10th Aves Dep.IronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Queens 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
Sunnyside0.4 miles37
Long Island City0.9 miles37
Sunnyside Gardens1.4 miles37
Maspeth1.6 miles37
Woodside1.9 miles37
Bushwick Junction2.1 miles37
Old Germania Heights2.2 miles37
Charlotteville (historical)2.3 miles42

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2080537. 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.