Brooklyn Heights, New York

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.

1889 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 within a mile 12 of 28 shown

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

• Brooklyn Historical SocietyNational Historic Landmark · listed 1991 · 0.1 miles away
• Brooklyn Heights Historic DistrictNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966 · 0.1 miles away
• Brooklyn BridgeNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966 · 0.8 miles away
• Holy Trinity Church (Protestant Episcopal)listed 1987 · 0.1 miles away
• Brooklyn Trust Company Buildinglisted 2009 · 0.1 miles away
• Federal Building and Post Officelisted 1974 · 0.2 miles away
• Brooklyn Borough Halllisted 1980 · 0.3 miles away
• Borough Hall Subway Station (IRT)listed 2004 · 0.3 miles away
• Plymouth Church of the Pilgrimslisted 1966 · 0.3 miles away
• Cobble Hill Historic Districtlisted 1976 · 0.3 miles away
• Atlantic Avenue Tunnellisted 1989 · 0.4 miles away
• Old Brooklyn Fire Headquarterslisted 1972 · 0.4 miles away

Every listing in Kings 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.

• 1889 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
• 1891 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1898 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
• 1900 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500, 11 printings
• 1947 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:24000
• 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Brooklyn 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
• 1967 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1995 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,391 fires within 5 miles of Brooklyn Heights between 2002 and 2020, burning about 402 acres in total. 90 started naturally. 120 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:

• Cobble Hill
• South Brooklyn
• Park Slope
• Vinegar Hill
• Wyckoff Gardens
• Red Hook

Every fire recorded in Kings County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Brooklyn Heights: 5 unknowns, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, 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 Kings 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 944845. 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.