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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.

East Nassau within Rensselaer County

Then and now

1893 to 1989

The 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.

Topographic sheet of East Nassau, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of East Nassau, surveyed 1893

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

Population over time

2 figures

East 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.

YearPeople Change
2010587
2020559-28 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 30 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

125 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined60
Debris and open burning29
Natural13
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 July 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rensselaer County

Storms near this place

5 since 2000

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2017Thunderstorm WindEast 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 2011HailEast Nassau-Quarter size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in East Nassau.
June 2007HailEast Nassau-Nickel size hail fell in East Nassau.
August 2004HailEast Nassau-no account filed
June 2000HailEast Nassau-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rensselaer 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
Brainard0.9 miles21
Hoag Corners3.4 miles30
West Stephentown5.3 miles36
North Nassau5.3 miles30
Dunham Hollow5.5 miles36
Nassau5.5 miles30
Morey Park5.5 miles30
Rosecrans Park5.6 miles30

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 NassauAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3458103The 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.