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Lawrence, 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 11559. It lies near Big Hassock. The Survey maps it on the Lawrence quadrangle. 6,809 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 20 feet above sea level.

Lawrence 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 Lawrence, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Lawrence, surveyed 1897

On record in Lawrence

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

Lawrence grew from 6,483 to 6,809 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
20106,483
20206,809+326 (+5%)

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

678 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 678 fires within 5 miles of Lawrence between 1995 and 2020, burning about 403 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 47 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/undetermined460
Arson/incendiarism47
Smoking47
Natural38
Misuse of fire by a minor36
Debris and open burning16
Power generation/transmission/distribution15
Equipment and vehicle use15
Recreation and ceremony3
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 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
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 YorkNA
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.3 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lawrence in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 lightning. 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
July 2025LightningLawrence$20,000A house was struck by lightning causing a fire with moderate damage to roof.
June 2013Flash FloodLawrence-In Lawrence, the occupants of a vehicle were trapped on its roof in flood waters on Meadow Lane.
August 2011Flash FloodLawrence-In South Hempstead, a car was stranded in two to three feet of water at exit 20S of the Southern State Pkwy. In Wantagh, the intersection of Park Ave. and Beech St. was closed due to flooding. In addition, two vehicles were trapped in flood waters at the intersection of Sunrise Hwy. and Seaford Avenue. The road was closed by local authorities. Several vehicles were completely submerged at the Central Ave. and Southern State Pkwy. interchange in Lawrence requiring local firefighters to respond to the scene. Another motorist was rescued from his vehicle by local firefighters on Meadow Ln. also in Lawrence. The Southern State Pkwy. was closed due to flooding between exits 14 and 16. Storm total rainfall reports in Nassau County ranged from 3.63 inches in Muttontown to 10.87 inches in Lido Beach.
September 2010HailLawrence-Quarter size hail was reported.

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
Ocean Point0.5 miles29
Cedarhurst0.6 miles29
Inwood1.0 miles29
Woodsburgh1.3 miles29
Woodmere1.4 miles29
Meadowmere Park1.6 miles29
Hewlett Neck1.7 miles29
Atlantic Beach1.8 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 LawrenceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3477005The 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 955101. 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.