Fort Greene, 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 12 of 25 shown

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

• Lefferts-Laidlaw Houselisted 1985 · 0.1 miles away
• Rockwood Chocolate Factory Historic Districtlisted 1983 · 0.2 miles away
• Wallabout Historic Districtlisted 2011 · 0.2 miles away
• Pratt Institute Historic Districtlisted 2005 · 0.2 miles away
• Feuchtwanger Stablelisted 1986 · 0.3 miles away
• St. Mary's Episcopal Churchlisted 1983 · 0.3 miles away
• Fort Greene Historic District (Boundary Increase)listed 1984 · 0.3 miles away
• Wallabout Industrial Historic Districtlisted 2012 · 0.4 miles away
• Emmanuel Baptist Churchlisted 1977 · 0.4 miles away
• Clinton Hill Historic Districtlisted 1985 · 0.4 miles away
• Fort Greene Historic Districtlisted 1983 · 0.4 miles away
• Hanson Place Seventh Day Adventist Churchlisted 1980 · 0.7 miles away

Every listing in Kings County

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 Brooklyn quadrangle1:24000
• 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Brooklyn 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
• 1967 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1995 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,721 fires within 5 miles of Fort Greene between 2002 and 2020, burning about 480 acres in total. 102 started naturally. 141 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:

• Clinton Hill
• Adelphi
• Greenpoint
• Park Slope
• Vinegar Hill
• Williamsburg

Every fire recorded in Kings County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Fort Greene: 4 occurrences, 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Molybdenum, Beryllium. 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 950468. 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.