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Coney Island, New York

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the borough of Brooklyn. It lies in ZIP code area 11224. It stands on Coney Island Creek. The Survey maps it on the Coney Island quadrangle.

Coney Island within Kings 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 Coney Island, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Coney Island, surveyed 1889

On record in Coney Island

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 36 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

1,565 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,565 fires within 5 miles of Coney Island between 1992 and 2020, burning about 817 acres in total. 131 started naturally. 127 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/undetermined1099
Natural131
Arson/incendiarism127
Smoking84
Debris and open burning43
Equipment and vehicle use34
Fireworks21
Recreation and ceremony12
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1

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 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2010Smokingunder 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 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresGateway National Recreation AreaPLUMB2
8 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kings 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
Seagate0.8 miles43
West Brighton1.1 miles36
Bensonhurst1.6 miles36
Brighton Beach1.8 miles36
Bath Beach1.9 miles43
Gravesend2.0 miles36
New Utrecht2.4 miles36
Manhattan Beach2.5 miles36

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 947270. 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.