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Meadowmere Park, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Hempstead town. It stands on Hook Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lynbrook quadrangle.

Meadowmere Park 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 Meadowmere Park, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Meadowmere Park, surveyed 1897

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

990 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 990 fires within 5 miles of Meadowmere Park between 1995 and 2020, burning about 472 acres in total. 51 started naturally. 86 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/undetermined662
Arson/incendiarism86
Smoking59
Natural51
Misuse of fire by a minor41
Power generation/transmission/distribution33
Equipment and vehicle use24
Debris and open burning24
Recreation and ceremony9
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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Inwood1.0 miles29
Ocean Point1.3 miles29
Cedarhurst1.3 miles29
North Woodmere1.3 miles29
Lawrence1.6 miles29
Woodmere1.6 miles29
South Valley Stream1.9 miles29
Woodsburgh1.9 miles29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 956890. 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.