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Laurel Hollow, New York

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Oyster Bay town. It lies in ZIP code area 11791. The Survey maps it on the Huntington quadrangle. 1,940 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 92 feet above sea level.

Laurel Hollow within Nassau County

Then and now

1901 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Laurel Hollow, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Laurel Hollow, surveyed 1901

On record in Laurel Hollow

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Laurel Hollow fell from 1,952 to 1,940 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
20101,952
20201,940-12 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 32 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

325 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 325 fires within 5 miles of Laurel Hollow between 1992 and 2020, burning about 182 acres in total. 48 started naturally. 59 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/undetermined156
Arson/incendiarism59
Natural48
Debris and open burning15
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Smoking13
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
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
7 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution2.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2010Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder 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

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Laurel Hollow in 1 storm report in 2016: 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
August 2016Thunderstorm WindLaurel Hollow$7,500A tree was reported down across the road and other trees down across power lines near the intersection of Laurel Hollow Road and Stewart Lane near Laurel Hollow.

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
Woodbury2.1 miles32
Oyster Bay Cove2.4 miles35
Cove Neck2.6 miles34
Syosset2.7 miles35
Oyster Bay3.4 miles35
East Norwich3.5 miles35
Locust Grove3.7 miles35
Centre Island4.1 miles34

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 Laurel HollowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3448994The 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 955090. 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.