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Great Neck, New York

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in North Hempstead town. It lies in ZIP code area 11023. The Survey maps it on the Sea Cliff quadrangle.

Great Neck within Nassau County

Then and now

1897 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Great Neck, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Great Neck, surveyed 1897

On record in Great Neck

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 2 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 34 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

758 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 758 fires within 5 miles of Great Neck between 2000 and 2020, burning about 210 acres in total. 49 started naturally. 50 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/undetermined507
Smoking51
Arson/incendiarism50
Natural49
Recreation and ceremony38
Power generation/transmission/distribution23
Debris and open burning21
Equipment and vehicle use13
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2015Natural2.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2016Recreation and ceremony1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2005Missing 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 2004Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Great Neck: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mccormack Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Port Washington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Port Washington Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Port Washington PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Great Neck in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2012Thunderstorm WindGreat Neck$1,500Community Drive was blocked due to a fallen tree near the Long Island Expressway.
January 2024Flash FloodGreat Neck-Horace Harding Expressway service road closed due to flooding.
August 2011Flash FloodGreat Neck-A trained spotter reported Lakeville Road and Northern State Parkway impassable due to flash flooding in Lake Success.
August 2011HailGreat Neck-no account filed
June 1998LightningGreat Neck-no account filed
May 1994HailGreat Neck-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
Great Neck Gardens0.3 miles34
Kensington0.6 miles34
Saddle Rock Estates0.9 miles34
Great Neck Plaza1.0 miles34
Great Neck Estates1.0 miles34
Saddle Rock1.1 miles34
Harbor Hills1.2 miles34
East Atlantic Beach1.2 miles34

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 951636. 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.