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New Square, New York

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ramapo town. It lies in ZIP code area 10977. The Survey maps it on the Thiells quadrangle. 9,679 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 492 feet above sea level.

New Square within Rockland County

Then and now

1891 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 95 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 Square, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of New Square, surveyed 1891

On record in New Square

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 2 records

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

Population over time

2 figures

New Square grew from 6,944 to 9,679 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
20106,944
20209,679+2,735 (+39%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 33 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

2,215 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,215 fires within 5 miles of New Square between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,644 acres in total. 109 started naturally. 178 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/undetermined1290
Smoking338
Arson/incendiarism178
Natural109
Recreation and ceremony107
Equipment and vehicle use82
Debris and open burning56
Misuse of fire by a minor38
Power generation/transmission/distribution15
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 2015Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2010Smokingunder 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
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2016Recreation and ceremony6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rockland County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of New Square: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Zirconium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ladentown Copper DepositCopper, ZirconiumOccurrence
Mount Ivy Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Mount Ivy Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
West Nyack QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
West Nyack Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rockland 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
Hillcrest0.6 miles33
New Hempstead0.9 miles33
Summit Park1.4 miles33
Spring Valley1.7 miles37
Kaser1.9 miles37
Spring Valley Village1.9 miles37
New City Park1.9 miles33
Pomona2.1 miles33

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 SquareAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2917479The 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 971939. 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.