Inwood, 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 11096. It stands on Motts Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lawrence quadrangle. 11,340 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1897 to 1984The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresInwood grew from 9,792 to 11,340 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 9,792 | |
| 2020 | 11,340 | +1,548 (+16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 29 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1897 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
- 1898 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
- 1899 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 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 Lawrence quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
849 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 849 fires within 5 miles of Inwood between 1995 and 2020, burning about 460 acres in total. 49 started naturally. 61 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/undetermined | 585 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 61 |
| Smoking | 51 |
| Natural | 49 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 37 |
| Debris and open burning | 20 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 19 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 19 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.9 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 September 2016 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 6 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 6 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 6 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Inwood in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 2 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Inwood | - | Mott Avenue was closed due to flooding between Westcott Street and Mott Place in Inwood. |
| August 2011 | Flash Flood | Inwood | - | Service on the Far Rockaway (from Valley Stream to the Queens County line) and Long Beach branches of the Long Island Rail Road was suspended due to flooding. There was also extremely high water in the train storage yard. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence | 1.0 miles | 29 | |
| Meadowmere Park | 1.0 miles | 29 | |
| Ocean Point | 1.1 miles | 29 | |
| Cedarhurst | 1.2 miles | 29 | |
| Woodmere | 1.9 miles | 29 | |
| Woodsburgh | 2.0 miles | 29 | |
| North Woodmere | 2.3 miles | 29 | |
| Atlantic Beach | 2.5 miles | 29 |
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 Inwood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3476971 | The 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 953741. 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.













