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Cedarhurst, 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 11516. It stands on Motts Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lawrence quadrangle. 7,374 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 26 feet above sea level.

Cedarhurst 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 Cedarhurst, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Cedarhurst, surveyed 1897

Population over time

2 figures

Cedarhurst grew from 6,592 to 7,374 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
20106,592
20207,374+782 (+12%)

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

739 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 739 fires within 5 miles of Cedarhurst between 1998 and 2020, burning about 248 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 64 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/undetermined485
Arson/incendiarism64
Smoking48
Natural39
Misuse of fire by a minor36
Power generation/transmission/distribution26
Equipment and vehicle use20
Debris and open burning18
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
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
6 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
6 September 2010Missing 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

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedarhurst in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2012Thunderstorm WindCedarhurst$1,500A tree fell on power lines.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindCedarhurst$1,000Power lines were reported down on Raymond Place in Woodmere.
September 2023Flash FloodCedarhurst-Long Island Railroad service suspended on the Far Rockaway Branch between Valley Stream and Far Rockaway due to flooding.

Every storm 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
Ocean Point0.1 miles29
Lawrence0.6 miles29
Woodsburgh0.8 miles29
Woodmere0.9 miles29
Inwood1.2 miles29
Meadowmere Park1.3 miles29
Hewlett Neck1.4 miles29
Hewlett Bay Park1.7 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 CedarhurstAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1052557The 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 946156. 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.

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.