New Rochelle, New York
42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1995. It stands in New Rochelle City. It lies in ZIP code area 10801. It stands on Ferris Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mount Vernon quadrangle. 79,726 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 85 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1891 to 1995The 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.


Compare 1891 against another survey:
On record in New Rochelle
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 12 of 13 shown
Thomas Paine CottageNational Historic Landmark · listed 1972
Davenport Houselisted 1980
First Presbyterian Church and Pintard, Lewis, Houselisted 1979
Knickerbocker Press Buildinglisted 2000
Leland Castlelisted 1976
Lispenard-Rodman-Davenport Houselisted 1986
New Rochelle Railroad Stationlisted 2009
Pioneer Buildinglisted 1983
Rochelle Park-Rochelle Heights Historic Districtlisted 2005
Trinity-St. Paul's Episcopal Churchlisted 2006
US Post Office-New Rochellelisted 1989
Wildclifflisted 2002
Population over time
2 figuresNew Rochelle grew from 77,062 to 79,726 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 | 77,062 | |
| 2020 | 79,726 | +2,664 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 42 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.
- 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 Mt Vernon quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Mount Vernon 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 Mount Vernon quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
856 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 856 fires within 5 miles of New Rochelle between 2000 and 2020, burning about 345 acres in total. 62 started naturally. 62 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 | 564 |
| Smoking | 87 |
| Natural | 62 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 62 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 35 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Debris and open burning | 18 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 9 September 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 9 September 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 9 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Rochelle in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2008: 3 lightning, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2008 | Lightning | New Rochelle | $15,000 | Lightning struck the steeple of New Rochelle High School, causing significant damage. |
| July 1996 | Lightning | New Rochelle | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Rochelle | $2,000 | Multiple trees were reported down. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Rochelle | - | Wires down at multiple locations including: North Avenue at Quaker Ridge Road, Fairview Place, and Franklin Avenue. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Rochelle | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Lightning | New Rochelle | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rochelle Park | 0.5 miles | 42 | |
| Homestead Park | 0.6 miles | 42 | |
| Residence Park | 0.7 miles | 42 | |
| Halcyon Park | 0.9 miles | 42 | |
| Pine Brook | 0.9 miles | 42 | |
| Rochelle Heights | 1.0 miles | 42 | |
| Woodside | 1.0 miles | 42 | |
| Huguenot Park | 1.0 miles | 42 |
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 Rochelle | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q744948 | 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 958451. 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.














