Harlem, New York

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.

1891 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 64 shown

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

• Claude McKay ResidenceNational Historic Landmark · listed 1976 · 0.5 miles away
• Philosophy HallNational Historic Landmark · listed 2003 · 0.8 miles away
• Pupin Physics Laboratories, Columbia UniversityNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966 · 0.8 miles away
• Hamilton Grange National MemorialNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966 · 0.9 miles away
• Park and Tilford Buildinglisted 2009 · 0.2 miles away
• St. Andrew's Episcopal Churchlisted 1980 · 0.2 miles away
• Holy Cross African Orthodox Pro-Cathedrallisted 2017 · 0.2 miles away
• Hotel Theresalisted 2005 · 0.2 miles away
• New York Presbyterian Churchlisted 1982 · 0.2 miles away
• Langston Hughes Houselisted 1982 · 0.3 miles away
• Apollo Theaterlisted 1983 · 0.3 miles away
• Harlem Fire Watchtowerlisted 1976 · 0.3 miles away

Every listing in New York 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.

• 1891 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1898 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500
• 1900 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500, 16 printings
• 1947 USGS Central Park quadrangle1:24000
• 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Central Park 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
• 1966 USGS Central Park quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1995 USGS Central Park quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,999 fires within 5 miles of Harlem between 1995 and 2020, burning about 555 acres in total. 117 started naturally. 108 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:

• Delano Village
• Esplanade Gardens
• Taino Towers
• East Harlem
• Le Petit Senegal
• Morningside Heights

Every fire recorded in New York County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Harlem: 14 occurrences, 6 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.

Every working recorded in New York 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 952233. 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.