Morningside Heights, 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 within a mile 12 of 50 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Pupin Physics Laboratories, Columbia UniversityNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966 · 0.1 miles away
• Philosophy HallNational Historic Landmark · listed 2003 · 0.2 miles away
• Milbank, Brinckerhoff, and Fiske Hallslisted 2003 · 0.0 miles away
• Earl Halllisted 2018 · 0.1 miles away
• Students' Halllisted 2003 · 0.1 miles away
• Union Theological Seminarylisted 1980 · 0.1 miles away
• Low Memorial Library, Columbia Universitylisted 1987 · 0.1 miles away
• Brooks and Hewitt Hallslisted 2003 · 0.1 miles away
• 116th Street-Columbia University Subway Station (IRT)listed 2004 · 0.2 miles away
• Delta Psi, Alpha Chapterlisted 1996 · 0.2 miles away
• Casa Italinalisted 1982 · 0.2 miles away
• General Grant National Memoriallisted 1966 · 0.2 miles away

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 1,746 fires within 5 miles of Morningside Heights between 1995 and 2020, burning about 504 acres in total. 99 started naturally. 95 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:

• Delano Village
• East Harlem
• Esplanade Gardens
• Harlem
• Le Petit Senegal
• Park West Village

Every fire recorded in New York County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Morningside Heights: 14 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 2083610. 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.