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.
Then and now
1897 to 1984The 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.


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
US Post Office-Mineolalisted 1989- Nassau County Courthouselisted 2021
Population over time
2 figuresMineola 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 18,799 | |
| 2020 | 20,800 | +2,001 (+11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 29 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1897 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
- 1898 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
- 1899 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
- 1947 USGS Lynbrook quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Lynbrook quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS Lynbrook quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1,187 since 2000Regional 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/undetermined | 723 |
| Smoking | 129 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 105 |
| Natural | 65 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 53 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 45 |
| Debris and open burning | 25 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 25 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 15 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 8 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2010 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2005 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mineola | $4,000 | A tree was down across the Long Island Railroad tracks at the junction of East Williston and Hillside Avenues, just northwest of Mineola. |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | Mineola | - | Cars were stuck under the Long Island Railroad bridge on Jericho Turnpike in Mineola due to flooding. |
| August 2012 | Flash Flood | Mineola | - | In Mineola, nine feet of water accumulated under the railroad tressel near Elm Pl. and Jericho Turnpike. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Mineola | - | Nickle to quarter size hail was reported in East Williston. |
| August 2008 | Flash Flood | Mineola | - | 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Mineola | - | Flash flooding caused the closure of Roslyn Road in Mineola and portions of the Northern State Parkway near Route 107. |
| September 2001 | Hail | Mineola | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mineola | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Mineola | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Williston Park | 0.5 miles | 34 | |
| East Williston | 0.7 miles | 34 | |
| Garden City Park | 1.3 miles | 29 | |
| Herricks | 1.4 miles | 34 | |
| Garden City | 1.6 miles | 29 | |
| Carle Place | 1.6 miles | 35 | |
| Albertson | 1.7 miles | 34 | |
| Hillside Manor | 1.7 miles | 34 |
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 Mineola | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2349502 | The 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.













