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New Cassel, New York

35 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 11590. The Survey maps it on the Hicksville quadrangle. 14,199 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 121 feet above sea level.

New Cassel 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 New Cassel, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of New Cassel, surveyed 1897

Population over time

2 figures

New Cassel grew from 14,059 to 14,199 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
201014,059
202014,199+140 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 35 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

1,181 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,181 fires within 5 miles of New Cassel between 1993 and 2020, burning about 526 acres in total. 64 started naturally. 132 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/undetermined714
Smoking138
Arson/incendiarism132
Natural64
Equipment and vehicle use49
Power generation/transmission/distribution35
Debris and open burning22
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Recreation and ceremony5
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
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
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
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 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Cassel in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 5 injuries. 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
July 2008LightningNew Cassel5 hurtFive men, in their 20s and 30s, took refuge under a tree during a thunderstorm and were struck by lightning. Three of the men received serious burns.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindNew Cassel$3,000A large tree was downed onto a garage.
September 2023Flash FloodNew Cassel-Public reports from mPing of vehicles stranded in flooded roadways.
July 2022HailNew Cassel-MPING report of 1.5 inch hail.

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
Westbury South0.6 miles35
Westbury1.0 miles35
Salisbury1.0 miles29
Carle Place2.2 miles35
Hicksville2.4 miles35
East Garden City2.5 miles29
Old Westbury2.6 miles35
Jericho2.8 miles35

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 New CasselAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3452385The 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 958399. 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.