Fresh Pond, 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 19 shown

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

• Woodbine-Palmetto-Gates Historic Districtlisted 1983 · 0.0 miles away
• Madison-Putnam-60th Place Historic Districtlisted 1983 · 0.1 miles away
• Grove-Linden-St. John's Historic Districtlisted 1983 · 0.2 miles away
• St. Matthias Roman Catholic Church Complexlisted 2012 · 0.2 miles away
• Seneca-Onderdonk-Woodward Historic Districtlisted 1983 · 0.3 miles away
• Central Ridgewood Historic Districtlisted 1983 · 0.3 miles away
• Fresh Pond-Traffic Historic Districtlisted 1983 · 0.4 miles away
• Cypress Avenue East Historic Districtlisted 1983 · 0.4 miles away
• Seneca Avenue East Historic Districtlisted 1983 · 0.5 miles away
• 68th Avenue-64th Place Historic Districtlisted 1983 · 0.5 miles away
• Summerfield Street Row Historic Districtlisted 1983 · 0.5 miles away
• Forest-Norman Historic Districtlisted 1983 · 0.6 miles away

Every listing in Queens 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 2,804 fires within 5 miles of Fresh Pond between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,233 acres in total. 174 started naturally. 173 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:

• Middle Village
• Ridgewood
• Forest Hills
• Forest Hills Gardens
• Fresh Pond Junction
• Glendale

Every fire recorded in Queens County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Fresh Pond: 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 Queens County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fresh Pond in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. 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.

Every storm recorded in Queens 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 950720. 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.