East Nassau, New York
30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Nassau town. It lies in ZIP code area 12062. It stands on Black Brook. The Survey maps it on the Nassau quadrangle. 559 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 571 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1893 to 1989The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in East Nassau
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 1 record
- East Nassau Central Schoollisted 1997
Population over time
2 figuresEast Nassau fell from 587 to 559 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 587 | |
| 2020 | 559 | -28 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 30 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1893 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500
- 1895 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500
- 1898 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
- 1925 USGS Troy quadrangle1:48000
- 1928 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Nassau quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
125 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of East Nassau between 1992 and 2020, burning about 160 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined | 60 |
| Debris and open burning | 29 |
| Natural | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 25 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 July 2016 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 4 July 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 14 July 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 13 July 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 June 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 June 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Nassau in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2017: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Nassau | - | Route 20 was closed between Bliss School House Road and Route 66 due to downed trees and wires in the town of Nassau as a result of thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2011 | Hail | East Nassau | - | Quarter size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in East Nassau. |
| June 2007 | Hail | East Nassau | - | Nickel size hail fell in East Nassau. |
| August 2004 | Hail | East Nassau | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | East Nassau | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brainard | 0.9 miles | 21 | |
| Hoag Corners | 3.4 miles | 30 | |
| West Stephentown | 5.3 miles | 36 | |
| North Nassau | 5.3 miles | 30 | |
| Dunham Hollow | 5.5 miles | 36 | |
| Nassau | 5.5 miles | 30 | |
| Morey Park | 5.5 miles | 30 | |
| Rosecrans Park | 5.6 miles | 30 |
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 East Nassau | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3458103 | The 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 949185. 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.













