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Hewlett, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Hempstead town. It lies in ZIP code area 11557. It stands on Thixton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lynbrook quadrangle. 7,262 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 20 feet above sea level.

Hewlett 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 Hewlett, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Hewlett, surveyed 1897

Population over time

2 figures

Hewlett grew from 6,819 to 7,262 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20106,819
20207,262+443 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

880 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 880 fires within 5 miles of Hewlett between 1992 and 2020, burning about 319 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 107 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/undetermined545
Arson/incendiarism107
Smoking57
Power generation/transmission/distribution55
Misuse of fire by a minor34
Natural32
Equipment and vehicle use25
Debris and open burning17
Recreation and ceremony7
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 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hewlett in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 3 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. 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
November 2021Tornado (EF0)Hewlett$300,000A tornado briefly touched down in a few locations. The first report of a touchdown was in Woodmere where several trees and powerlines were down. From there, the tornado lifted and skipped in a few locations as it traveled nearly 50 mph to the northeast towards Hempstead, Uniondale, and Levittown. Here, damage reports were sporadic, but in Uniondale NY, the tornado touched down again and tore a roof off a two-story colonial building on Liberty Street, which landed on a nearby house. Scattered debris, including shingles, insulation and twisted siding was thrown into the next block up, including the intersection of Emerson and Goodrich Street. Significant damage was also noted near Clover Lane in Levittown, where a large tree was felled onto a house before the tornado lifted.
September 2023Flash FloodHewlett-Several Cars Stranded in flood waters with rescues Underway on Peninsula Blvd near Woodmere Blvd.
September 2023Flash FloodHewlett-Motorist stuck in flood waters on Island Ave in Woodmere. Fire Department responding.
August 2011Flash FloodHewlett-The intersection of Penisula Blvd. and Woodmere Blvd. in Woodmere was closed due to flooding.
June 1998LightningHewlett-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
Hewlett Bay Park0.7 miles29
Hewlett Harbor0.9 miles29
Woodmere1.2 miles29
Hewlett Neck1.4 miles29
East Rockaway1.4 miles29
South Valley Stream1.5 miles29
Woodsburgh1.5 miles29
Lynbrook1.5 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 HewlettAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3477054The 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 952660. 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.

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.