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Mineola, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in North Hempstead town. It lies in ZIP code area 11501. The Survey maps it on the Lynbrook quadrangle. 20,800 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 108 feet above sea level.

Mineola 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 Mineola, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Mineola, surveyed 1897

On record in Mineola

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Mineola grew from 18,799 to 20,800 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
201018,799
202020,800+2,001 (+11%)

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

1,187 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,187 fires within 5 miles of Mineola between 2000 and 2020, burning about 491 acres in total. 65 started naturally. 105 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/undetermined723
Smoking129
Arson/incendiarism105
Natural65
Equipment and vehicle use53
Power generation/transmission/distribution45
Debris and open burning25
Recreation and ceremony25
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2015Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this place

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mineola in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 4 flash flood, 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2017Thunderstorm WindMineola$4,000A tree was down across the Long Island Railroad tracks at the junction of East Williston and Hillside Avenues, just northwest of Mineola.
July 2019Flash FloodMineola-Cars were stuck under the Long Island Railroad bridge on Jericho Turnpike in Mineola due to flooding.
August 2012Flash FloodMineola-In Mineola, nine feet of water accumulated under the railroad tressel near Elm Pl. and Jericho Turnpike.
June 2010HailMineola-Nickle to quarter size hail was reported in East Williston.
August 2008Flash FloodMineola-The intersection of Jericho Tpke and Elm Pl. in Mineola was closed due to flooding with 8 to 12 inches of water on the road. A mesonet station in Floral Park recorded a storm total rainfall amount of 1.47 inches.
October 2007Flash FloodMineola-Flash flooding caused the closure of Roslyn Road in Mineola and portions of the Northern State Parkway near Route 107.
September 2001HailMineola-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindMineola-no account filed
August 1997HailMineola-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
Williston Park0.5 miles34
East Williston0.7 miles34
Garden City Park1.3 miles29
Herricks1.4 miles34
Garden City1.6 miles29
Carle Place1.6 miles35
Albertson1.7 miles34
Hillside Manor1.7 miles34

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 MineolaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2349502The 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 957391. 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.