Flatlands, New York

The same ground, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1889 1995

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 5 records

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

• Flatlands Dutch Reformed Churchlisted 1979 · 0.2 miles away
• Stoothoff-Baxter-Kouwenhaven Houselisted 1982 · 0.3 miles away
• Kingsway Jewish Centerlisted 2010 · 0.6 miles away
• Joost Van Nuyse Houselisted 2006 · 0.7 miles away
• Hendrick I. Lott Houselisted 1994 · 0.8 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.

• 1889 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
• 1891 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1898 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
• 1900 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500, 11 printings
• 1947 USGS Coney Island quadrangle1:24000
• 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Coney Island quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1966 USGS Coney Island quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1995 USGS Coney Island quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,480 fires within 5 miles of Flatlands between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,544 acres in total. 135 started naturally. 217 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:

• East Flatbush
• Keshaechquereren (historical)
• Bergen Beach
• Brooklyn
• Brownsville
• Canarsie

Every fire recorded in Kings County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Flatlands: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, 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 Kings County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 950260. 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.