Bronx, New York

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• Bronx County

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 12 of 44 shown

• Admiral David Glasgow Farragut GravesiteNational Historic Landmark · listed 2012
• University Heights Campus (Bronx Community College of The City University of New York)National Historic Landmark · listed 2012
• Woodlawn CemeteryNational Historic Landmark · listed 2011
• 242nd Street-Van Cortlandt Park Station (IRT)listed 2005
• Bath House, Crotona Parklisted 2015
• Casa Amadeo, antigua Casa Hernandezlisted 2001
• Chevra Linas Hazedek Synagogue of Harlem and the Bronxlisted 2014
• Concourse Yard Substationlisted 2006
• Dollar Savings Banklisted 2011
• Grace Episcopal Churchlisted 2006
• Jackson Avenue Subway Station (IRT)listed 2004
• Jerome Park Reservoirlisted 2000

Every listing in Bronx 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.

• 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 Flushing quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Flushing 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 Flushing quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1995 USGS Flushing quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,798 fires within 5 miles of Bronx between 2000 and 2020, burning about 778 acres in total. 164 started naturally. 148 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:

• Bronxdale
• Van Nest
• Baychester
• East Tremont
• Morris Heights
• Morris Park

Every fire recorded in Bronx County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Bronx: 5 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Garnet, Zirconium, 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 Bronx County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bronx in 31 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 10 flash flood, 4 hail, 2 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 4 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in Bronx 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 971944. 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.