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Freeport, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Hempstead town. It lies in ZIP code area 11520. It stands on East Meadow Brook. The Survey maps it on the Freeport quadrangle. 44,472 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 20 feet above sea level.

Freeport within Nassau County

Then and now

1897 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Freeport, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Freeport, surveyed 1897

Compare 1897 against another survey:

On record in Freeport

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

840 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 840 fires within 5 miles of Freeport between 1992 and 2020, burning about 346 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 90 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/undetermined533
Smoking99
Arson/incendiarism90
Natural39
Power generation/transmission/distribution26
Equipment and vehicle use24
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Debris and open burning11
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes1

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
8 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder 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 Freeport: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Wollastonite, Garnet. 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
DeersheadWollastonite, GarnetOccurrenceWollastonite

Every working recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Freeport in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 1 coastal flood, 1 rip current, 1 flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2002Rip CurrentFreeport1 killed, 3 hurtOne fisherman was missing, and presumed dead, and another fisherman was rescued in the waters off Civic Beach after their 21 foot motorized fishing boat overturned in rough seas. A 27 year old male was presumed dead after a Coast Guard search was called off the next evening. A 40 year old male was rescued and treated for a fractured rib, ingested sea water, and hypothermia from the 57 degree water. Two rescuers also suffered minor injuries when a large wave crashed into their boat. Buoy 44025, located approximately 20 nautical miles south of Fire Island, measured east-northeast winds of 25 to 30 knots with gusts to around 35 knots and seas of 12 feet around the time of the incident. The Coast Guard reported that neither man was wearing a life jacket when the boat overturned.
July 2016LightningFreeport$10,000Lightning struck a home on Sportsman Avenue, causing a fire, just south of Freeport.
June 2020Flash FloodFreeport-South Bay Avenue is closed between Ray Street and Cedar Street in Freeport due to flooding.
August 2011FloodFreeport-Buffalo Ave. at Merrick Rd. in Freeport was impassible due to flooding.
August 1997Coastal FloodFreeport-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
Baldwin1.4 miles29
Roosevelt1.5 miles29
Millburn1.5 miles29
Merrick1.7 miles29
Baldwin Harbor1.8 miles29
Bay Colony2.0 miles29
South Hempstead2.3 miles29
North Merrick2.5 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 FreeportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1323073The 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 970151. 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.