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East Garden City, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Hempstead town. It lies in ZIP code area 11530. The Survey maps it on the Freeport quadrangle.

East Garden City within Nassau County

Then and now

1897 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of East Garden City, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of East Garden City, surveyed 1897

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On record in East Garden City

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 1 record

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

1,411 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,411 fires within 5 miles of East Garden City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 600 acres in total. 75 started naturally. 161 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/undetermined843
Smoking171
Arson/incendiarism161
Natural75
Equipment and vehicle use57
Power generation/transmission/distribution41
Debris and open burning26
Misuse of fire by a minor23
Recreation and ceremony12
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2015Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Seasons of East Meadow1.6 miles29
Carle Place1.6 miles35
Westbury1.8 miles35
Garden City1.9 miles29
Hempstead2.0 miles29
Uniondale2.1 miles29
Salisbury2.3 miles29
East Meadow2.4 miles29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1852898. 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.