BlockFlushing, New York
43 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the borough of Queens. It lies in ZIP code area 11354. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Flushing quadrangle.
Then and now
1891 to 1995The same ground, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1891 against another survey:
On record in Flushing
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 7 records
1964-1965 New York World's Fair New York State Pavilionlisted 2009
Broadway-Flushing Historic Districtlisted 2006
Flushing Armorylisted 1995
Free Synagogue of Flushinglisted 2009
Main Street Subway Station (Dual System IRT)listed 2004
St. George's Churchlisted 2008- Conrad Voelcker Houselisted 2020
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 43 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500
- 1897 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1898 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500, 16 printings
- 1947 USGS Flushing quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Flushing quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Flushing quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Flushing quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2,109 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,109 fires within 5 miles of Flushing between 2000 and 2020, burning about 491 acres in total. 127 started naturally. 102 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/undetermined | 1520 |
| Smoking | 127 |
| Natural | 127 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 102 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 58 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 57 |
| Debris and open burning | 55 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 55 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 9 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 9 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 September 2005 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Flushing: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bay Shore Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
21 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flushing in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 9 thunderstorm wind, 8 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 deaths and 3 injuries. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2010 | Tornado (EF1) | Flushing | 1 killed, 1 hurt, $17,200,000 | A National Weather Service Storm Survey Team confirmed a tornado in Queens.||The tornado impacted Flushing and Bayside. In Flushing, on Browne Street between Roosevelt and 38th Avenues, the third floor of a residential brick building was severely damaged structurally. Large tree tops were lying on top of buildings and shot like projectiles between buildings. Sides of houses were peeled back. There was clear evidence of twisted metal along the side of the building. On Warren Street near the intersection of Roosevelt Avenue, a steel framed water tower was blown over on the roof. There was a partial roof collapse on another residential building.||A Pennsylvania woman was killed in her car by a falling tree on Grand Central Parkway. Her passenger was injured. A man trying to assist the woman suffered a brain aneurysm and died. ||The tornado touched down around 2.5 miles south of Flushing and lifted 1 mile northeast of Bayside over Little Neck Bay. |
| September 2021 | Flash Flood | Flushing | 1 killed | A 48 year old woman died when the basement of a home on Grand Central Parkway near the Horace Harding Expressway in Elmhurst flooded. |
| August 2018 | Lightning | Flushing | 2 hurt | Two people struck by lightning while on a soccer field at Flushing Meadows Corona Park. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flushing | $22,500 | A large tree was reported down on two vehicles. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flushing | $10,000 | Multiple Trees down on cars on 70th Avenue between Main Street and 147th Street. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flushing | $1,500 | A tree was reported down across the Long Island Railroad tracks at Main Street just southeast of Flushing. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flushing | - | A 61 mph gust measured at Kew Garden Hills New York State mesonet station. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Flushing | - | Standing water was reported up to the bumpers of cars in Jamaica. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flushing | - | A large tree limb was reported down. |
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flushing | - | High winds downed numerous trees and wires in Flushing. One tree fell on a car and another tree fell on a house. |
| August 2011 | Flood | Flushing | - | The Long Island Expressway was closed westbound at Kissena Blvd. in Flushing due to flooding. |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flushing | - | A garage complex in the Joyce Garden Co-op collapsed with multiple cars inside. |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flushing | - | Numerous trees were downed on the Queens College campus. Large trees were snapped in half, and some were completely blown over at the roots. A street light was also blown onto a bus stop at Jewel Avenue. |
| July 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Flushing | - | A funnel cloud was reported. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Flushing | - | Occupied vehicles were stuck in rising water at the intersection of the Long Island Expressway and Kissena Blvd. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Flushing | - | Torrential rain also caused flash flooding along I-678 north bound near the Grand Central Parkway in Flushing, and up to 2 feet of water on rail road tracks in Jamaica. Flooding also blocked all lanes on portions of the Jackie Robinson Parkway between the Bronx-Queens Expressway and Van Wyck Expressway. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Flushing | - | All lanes on Jackie Robinson Parkway at Myrtle Avenue closed due to flash flooding. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Flushing | - | Flash flooding occurred along portions of the Long Island Expressway at Exit 18, Maurice Avenue and at Northern Blvd. on the Cross Island Parkway. |
| June 2006 | Flash Flood | Flushing | - | Heavy rainfall caused flash flooding of roadways. |
| August 2004 | Flash Flood | Flushing | - | Flash flooding from thunderstorms caused basement flooding at Flushing Hospital. |
| January 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flushing | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Murray Hill | 0.4 miles | 43 | |
| Linden Hill | 0.6 miles | 43 | |
| Queens | 1.5 miles | 35 | |
| Malba | 1.8 miles | 43 | |
| Beechhurst | 1.9 miles | 43 | |
| Whitestone | 2.0 miles | 43 | |
| Bayside | 2.1 miles | 43 | |
| College Point | 2.2 miles | 43 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 950315. 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.