Le Petit Senegal, 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 65 shown

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

• Philosophy HallNational Historic Landmark · listed 2003 · 0.4 miles away
• Pupin Physics Laboratories, Columbia UniversityNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966 · 0.5 miles away
• Claude McKay ResidenceNational Historic Landmark · listed 1976 · 1.0 miles away
• Minton's Playhouselisted 1985 · 0.1 miles away
• New York Public Library, 115th Street Branchlisted 1980 · 0.1 miles away
• Church of Notre Dame and Rectorylisted 1980 · 0.3 miles away
• Manhattan Avenue-West 120th-123rd Streets Historic Districtlisted 1992 · 0.3 miles away
• St. Luke's Hospitallisted 2019 · 0.3 miles away
• Casa Italinalisted 1982 · 0.3 miles away
• Low Memorial Library, Columbia Universitylisted 1987 · 0.4 miles away
• Hotel Theresalisted 2005 · 0.4 miles away
• Congregation Shaare Zedek of Harlemlisted 2015 · 0.5 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 1,871 fires within 5 miles of Le Petit Senegal between 1995 and 2020, burning about 507 acres in total. 106 started naturally. 103 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:

• East Harlem
• Carmansville (historical)
• Carnegie Hill
• Delano Village
• Esplanade Gardens
• Hamilton 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 Le Petit Senegal: 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 2562342. 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.