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North Wantagh, 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 11793. The Survey maps it on the Freeport quadrangle. 11,931 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 33 feet above sea level.

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

Compare 1897 against another survey:

On record in North Wantagh

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 4 records

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

Population over time

2 figures

North Wantagh fell from 11,960 to 11,931 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
201011,960
202011,931-29 (-0%)

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

1,538 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,538 fires within 5 miles of North Wantagh between 2000 and 2020, burning about 653 acres in total. 78 started naturally. 156 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/undetermined1078
Arson/incendiarism156
Smoking109
Natural78
Equipment and vehicle use37
Power generation/transmission/distribution28
Debris and open burning18
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Misuse of fire by a minor14
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 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
8 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

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Wantagh in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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
July 2019Thunderstorm WindNorth Wantagh$25,000Four trees reported down on houses on Spring Lane.
November 2021Thunderstorm WindNorth Wantagh$13,000Large tree reported down on house in Levittown.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindNorth Wantagh$10,000A large tree fell onto a house in Levittown.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindNorth Wantagh$1,000Tree down on Bernice Drive between Ernest Court and Concord Drive.
July 2025Flash FloodNorth Wantagh-Video showing feet of water on the intersection of Chimney Lane and Loring Road. Time estimated.
July 2010Flash FloodNorth Wantagh-In Levittown, a car was stranded in flood waters approximately 2 feet deep on Hyacinth Road. The driver and passenger were pulled out of the passenger side window by neighbors. Additional vehicles were also stuck in standing water, which covered the tires at the intersection of Kingfisher Rd. and Blackbird Lane.

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
Wantagh0.7 miles29
North Bellmore1.4 miles29
Massapequa2.0 miles33
Bellmore2.0 miles29
Plainedge2.1 miles33
Seaford2.2 miles33
Levittown2.3 miles29
North Massapequa2.5 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 North WantaghAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3477087The 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 958941. 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.