Chinatown, 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 122 shown

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

• Eldridge Street SynagogueNational Historic Landmark · listed 1980 · 0.2 miles away
• Alfred E. Smith HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1972 · 0.3 miles away
• Tenement Building at 97 Orchard StreetNational Historic Landmark · listed 1992 · 0.3 miles away
• Surrogate's CourtNational Historic Landmark · listed 1972 · 0.5 miles away
• African Burying GroundNational Historic Landmark · listed 1993 · 0.5 miles away
• A. T. Stewart Company StoreNational Historic Landmark · listed 1978 · 0.5 miles away
• Tweed CourthouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1974 · 0.5 miles away
• City HallNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966 · 0.6 miles away
• Bayard-Condict BuildingNational Historic Landmark · listed 1976 · 0.7 miles away
• Woolworth BuildingNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966 · 0.7 miles away
• St. Paul's ChapelNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966 · 0.8 miles away
• Old Merchant's HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966 · 0.8 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.

• 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 1,261 fires within 5 miles of Chinatown between 1995 and 2020, burning about 370 acres in total. 86 started naturally. 103 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:

• Tribeca
• East Village
• Little Italy
• New York
• Soho
• University Village

Every fire recorded in New York County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Chinatown: 6 occurrences, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Graphite, Manganese, Molybdenum. 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 946588. 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.