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Gracie Square, New York

42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the borough of Manhattan. It lies in ZIP code area 10028. It lies near Mill Rock. The Survey maps it on the Central Park quadrangle.

Gracie Square within New York County

Then and now

1891 to 1995

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Gracie Square, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Gracie Square, surveyed 1891

On record in Gracie Square

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 46 shown

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

Every listing in New York County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 42 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

1,824 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,824 fires within 5 miles of Gracie Square between 1995 and 2020, burning about 489 acres in total. 115 started naturally. 112 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/undetermined1196
Smoking138
Natural115
Arson/incendiarism112
Equipment and vehicle use76
Misuse of fire by a minor62
Debris and open burning62
Recreation and ceremony43
Fireworks9
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Other causes2

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
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in New York County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Gracie Square: 12 occurrences, 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Garnet, Beryllium. 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
102nd St & 4th Ave Garnet DepositGarnet, GemstoneOccurrence
155th St & 10th Ave Garnet DepositGarnet, ZirconiumOccurrence
176/178 Sts & 11th Ave DepositTitanium, Garnet, GemstoneOccurrence
64th St & 10th Ave Stilbite DepositZeolitesOccurrence
69th/70th Sts & 2nd Ave DepositIron, Garnet, TitaniumOccurrence
Manhattan Island OccurrenceMolybdenumOccurrence
National Gypsum/ Bronx MillGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Unnamed Pge OccurrencePalladium, PlatinumOccurrence
159th St & 11th Ave Beryl DepositBerylliumOccurrence
49th St & 1st Ave Beryl DepositBerylliumOccurrence

Every working recorded in New York 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
Yorkville0.5 miles42
Carnegie Hill0.7 miles42
Konaande Kongh (historical)0.9 miles42
Seneca Village (historical)1.0 miles42
Manhattan1.2 miles42
East Harlem1.3 miles42
Park West Village1.6 miles42
Upper West Side1.7 miles42

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.

Wikidata item Q122546644The 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 2432110. 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.