Ocean Point, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Hempstead town. It lies in ZIP code area 11516. It stands on Motts Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lawrence quadrangle.

Ocean Point 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 Ocean Point, surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of Ocean Point, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

1897 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 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 Lawrence quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

741 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 741 fires within 5 miles of Ocean Point between 1997 and 2020, burning about 249 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 64 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	489
Arson/incendiarism	64
Smoking	47
Natural	39
Misuse of fire by a minor	36
Power generation/transmission/distribution	26
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Debris and open burning	18
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.9 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
6 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Cedarhurst	0.1 miles	29
Lawrence	0.5 miles	29
Woodsburgh	0.9 miles	29
Woodmere	1.0 miles	29
Inwood	1.1 miles	29
Meadowmere Park	1.3 miles	29
Hewlett Neck	1.5 miles	29
Hewlett Bay Park	1.8 miles	29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 975766. 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.