Edwin Markham Gardens, New York

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1898 1986

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 9 records

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

• Calvary Presbyterian Churchlisted 2002 · 0.4 miles away
• Kreuzer-Pelton Houselisted 1973 · 0.4 miles away
• Dr. Samuel MacKenzie Elliott Houselisted 1980 · 0.5 miles away
• Sailors' Snug Harbor National Register Districtlisted 1972 · 0.8 miles away
• Scott-Edwards Houselisted 1983 · 0.8 miles away
• Richmond Terrace Cemeterieslisted 2016 · 0.2 miles away
• West Brighton Plazalisted 2024 · 0.3 miles away
• Reformed Church on Staten Islandlisted 2005 · 0.8 miles away
• Unitarian Church of the Redeemerlisted 2026 · 1.0 miles away

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.

• 1898 USGS Staten Island quadrangle1:62500
• 1900 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Staten Island quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
• 1905 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1942 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000
• 1944 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1947 USGS Jersey City quadrangle1:24000
• 1949 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Jersey City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1964 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1967 USGS Jersey City quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1984 USGS Newark quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Newark quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,557 fires within 5 miles of Edwin Markham Gardens between 1992 and 2020, burning about 776 acres in total. 169 started naturally. 96 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• West New Brighton
• Hamilton Park
• New Brighton
• Port Richmond
• Saint George
• Stapleton

Every fire recorded in Richmond County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Edwin Markham Gardens: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Richmond County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2079135. 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.