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Elmont, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Hempstead town. It lies in ZIP code area 11003. The Survey maps it on the Lynbrook quadrangle. 35,265 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 39 feet above sea level.

Elmont 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 Elmont, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Elmont, surveyed 1897

On record in Elmont

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

Elmont grew from 33,198 to 35,265 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
201033,198
202035,265+2,067 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

1,613 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,613 fires within 5 miles of Elmont between 2000 and 2020, burning about 509 acres in total. 85 started naturally. 155 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/undetermined1037
Arson/incendiarism155
Smoking117
Natural85
Power generation/transmission/distribution62
Equipment and vehicle use47
Debris and open burning36
Recreation and ceremony36
Misuse of fire by a minor35
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 2004Missing 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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Elmont: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Bay Shore PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this place

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elmont in 6 storm reports between 2005 and 2019: 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 flood, 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
July 2016LightningElmont$15,000Lightning struck a house on 116th Road in Elmont, causing a fire.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindElmont$1,000Power lines were reported down on Dutch Broadway in Elmont.
July 2019Flash FloodElmont-Several cars were stuck under the highway overpass on Central Avenue by the Southern State Parkway in Valley Stream due to flooding.
December 2008FloodElmont-The Southern State Pkwy. was closed at the Cross Island Pkwy. due to extensive roadway flooding.
July 2007Flash FloodElmont-Flash flooding occurred along portions of the Northern State Parkway and Hempstead Turnpike in Elmont and on multiple streets in Port Washington, where road closures occurred.
July 2005Heavy RainElmont-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
Alden Manor0.5 miles29
South Floral Park1.1 miles29
North Valley Stream1.2 miles29
Bellerose Terrace1.5 miles29
Bellerose1.6 miles29
Floral Park1.6 miles29
Stewart Manor1.8 miles29
Franklin Square2.0 miles29

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 ElmontAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3300920The 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 949582. 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.