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East Williston, New York

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in North Hempstead town. It lies in ZIP code area 11596. The Survey maps it on the Sea Cliff quadrangle. 2,645 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 118 feet above sea level.

East Williston within Nassau County

Then and now

1897 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 87 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 Williston, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of East Williston, surveyed 1897

On record in East Williston

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 Williston grew from 2,556 to 2,645 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
20102,556
20202,645+89 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 34 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

1,107 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,107 fires within 5 miles of East Williston between 2000 and 2020, burning about 450 acres in total. 66 started naturally. 82 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/undetermined688
Smoking121
Arson/incendiarism82
Natural66
Equipment and vehicle use48
Power generation/transmission/distribution36
Debris and open burning25
Recreation and ceremony24
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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 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 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of East Williston: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mccormack Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Port Washington PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this place

8 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Williston in 8 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
August 2011HailEast Williston$100,000A spotter measured hail 3 inches in diameter, along with other reports of tennis ball size hail. This hail damaged around 150 cars in New Hyde Park, including the shattering of multiple windshields.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindEast Williston$10,000Numerous trees reported down around town.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindEast Williston$7,500A tree was reported down on a house at 1st Street and Marcellus Road in Mineola.
June 2017LightningEast Williston$2,500A lightning strike split two trees in Mineola at 356 Mineola Boulevard.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindEast Williston$2,000Numerous large tree limbs and power lines were reported down near East Williston, which led to numerous power outages.
September 2023Flash FloodEast Williston-Shelter Rock Road at Searingtown Road is closedu in both directions due to flooding.
May 2014Flash FloodEast Williston-The westbound Long Island Expressway was closed near Willis Ave. in Roslyn Heights due to flooding. Additionally, the basement of a house in Hillside Manor at the intersection of Brussel Dr. and Herbert Dr. was flooded.
August 2012HailEast Williston-no account filed

Every storm 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
Williston Park0.5 miles34
Mineola0.7 miles29
Albertson1.1 miles34
Carle Place1.4 miles35
Searingtown1.6 miles34
Herricks1.7 miles34
Garden City Park1.9 miles29
Hillside Manor2.1 miles34

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 WillistonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3451936The 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 949275. 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.

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.