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Locust Grove, New York

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Oyster Bay town. It lies in ZIP code area 11791. The Survey maps it on the Hicksville quadrangle.

Locust Grove 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 Locust Grove, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Locust Grove, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 35 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

465 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 465 fires within 5 miles of Locust Grove between 1993 and 2020, burning about 245 acres in total. 54 started naturally. 55 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/undetermined257
Arson/incendiarism55
Natural54
Smoking38
Power generation/transmission/distribution26
Equipment and vehicle use15
Debris and open burning14
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony1
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
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution2.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Locust Grove: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Thorium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Atomergic Chemetals/Plainview, N.Y.ThoriumUnknown
Controlled Castings/Plainview, N.Y.ThoriumUnknown

Every working recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Locust Grove in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2009Thunderstorm WindLocust Grove$8,000Numerous trees were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindLocust Grove$5,000Numerous trees were downed.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindLocust Grove$3,000Trees and wires were reported down near the intersection of Jackson and Railroad Avenues.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindLocust Grove$2,000Power lines down and power lost in Jericho NY.
July 2022HailLocust Grove-Broadcast media report of 1 inch hail.
July 2008HailLocust Grove-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
Syosset1.1 miles35
Woodbury2.1 miles32
Jericho2.4 miles35
Muttontown2.6 miles35
Plainview3.0 miles32
East Norwich3.1 miles35
Hicksville3.1 miles35
Swedetown Village3.5 miles32

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 970312. 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.

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.