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North Bellmore, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Hempstead town. It lies in ZIP code area 11710. The Survey maps it on the Freeport quadrangle. 20,583 people lived here at the 2020 count.

North Bellmore within Nassau County

Then and now

1897 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of North Bellmore, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of North Bellmore, surveyed 1897

Compare 1897 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

North Bellmore grew from 19,941 to 20,583 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
201019,941
202020,583+642 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 29 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

1,429 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,429 fires within 5 miles of North Bellmore between 1992 and 2020, burning about 604 acres in total. 64 started naturally. 158 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/undetermined965
Arson/incendiarism158
Smoking138
Natural64
Equipment and vehicle use35
Power generation/transmission/distribution24
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Debris and open burning17
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Recreation and ceremony4

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 2011Missing 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 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 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this place

12 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Bellmore in 12 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 8 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2010Thunderstorm WindNorth Bellmore$15,000Numerous trees were reported down in North Bellmore.
March 2010LightningNorth Bellmore$10,000A House in East Meadow was struck by Lightning.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindNorth Bellmore$1,000Large tree down in yard in East Meadow.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindNorth Bellmore$1,000A tree down on Oakdale Road between Hudson and Kenmore Street.
September 2023Flash FloodNorth Bellmore-Public report from mPing of vehicles stranded in flooded roadways.
September 2023Flash FloodNorth Bellmore-Multiple vehicles stuck in flood waters. Fire Department responding.
August 2018Flash FloodNorth Bellmore-People were trapped in cars at the intersection of Bellmore Avenue and Decatur Avenue in Bellmore due to flooding.
August 2018Flash FloodNorth Bellmore-People were trapped in cars at the intersection of Shaw Drive and Jerusalem Avenue in North Merrick due to flooding.
August 2018Flash FloodNorth Bellmore-People were trapped in cars at the intersection of North Jerusalem Road and Ennabrock Road in East Meadow due to flooding.
August 2018Flash FloodNorth Bellmore-Major flooding was reported on many streets in North Bellmore after 2.05 inches of rain in 40 minutes. The fire department was responding to multiple rescues from vehicles.
August 2018Flash FloodNorth Bellmore-North Jerusalem Avenue was flooded with 8-10 inches of standing water in East Meadow.
July 2010Flash FloodNorth Bellmore-In East Meadow, a car was stranded in approximately 2 feet of water on Hempstead Turnpike (Westbound) at Carman Avenue. This intersection was closed due to high water.

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
Wantagh1.3 miles29
North Wantagh1.4 miles29
North Merrick1.6 miles29
Bellmore1.6 miles29
East Meadow2.1 miles29
Merrick2.2 miles29
Levittown2.6 miles29
Seasons of East Meadow2.8 miles29

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 North BellmoreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3825900The 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 958684. 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.