Murray Hill, 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 14 shown

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

• Old Quaker MeetinghouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1967 · 0.9 miles away
• US Post Office-Jamaica Mainlisted 1988 · 0.6 miles away
• Kingsland Homesteadlisted 1972 · 0.6 miles away
• Old Town of Flushing Burial Groundlisted 2018 · 0.7 miles away
• John Bowne Houselisted 1977 · 0.7 miles away
• Free Synagogue of Flushinglisted 2009 · 0.8 miles away
• Broadway-Flushing Historic Districtlisted 2006 · 0.8 miles away
• US Post Office-Flushing Mainlisted 1988 · 0.8 miles away
• Flushing High Schoollisted 1992 · 0.8 miles away
• Flushing Armorylisted 1995 · 0.9 miles away
• Main Street Subway Station (Dual System IRT)listed 2004 · 0.9 miles away
• Flushing Town Halllisted 1972 · 0.9 miles away

Every listing in Queens 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 Flushing quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Flushing 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 Flushing quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1995 USGS Flushing quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,099 fires within 5 miles of Murray Hill between 2000 and 2020, burning about 487 acres in total. 121 started naturally. 106 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:

• Flushing
• East Elmhurst
• Linden Hill
• Corona
• Fresh Meadows
• Kew Gardens Hills

Every fire recorded in Queens County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Murray Hill: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 Queens 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 2080542. 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.