Manhattan, 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 12 of 20 shown

• 207th Street Yard-Signal Service Building and Tower Blisted 2006
• ENTERPRISE (space shuttle)listed 2013
• Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, Thelisted 2011
• Hotel Albertlisted 2012
• Hudson View Gardenslisted 2016
• Lithuanian Alliance of Americalisted 2022
• Mary McLeod Bethune Gardenslisted 2022
• New York Bible Societylisted 2014
• North Presbyterian Churchlisted 2014
• The Bowery Historic Districtlisted 2013
• West Harlem Historic Districtlisted 2022
• Women's National Republican Clublisted 2013

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 1,581 fires within 5 miles of Manhattan between 1995 and 2020, burning about 463 acres in total. 100 started naturally. 94 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:

• Seneca Village (historical)
• Gracie Square
• Harbor View Terrace
• Harsenville (historical)
• San Juan Hill
• Upper West Side

Every fire recorded in New York County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Manhattan: 13 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 971945. 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.