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Old Westbury, New York

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in North Hempstead town. It lies in ZIP code area 11568. The Survey maps it on the Hicksville quadrangle. 4,289 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 164 feet above sea level.

Old Westbury 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 Old Westbury, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Old Westbury, surveyed 1897

On record in Old Westbury

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Old Westbury fell from 4,671 to 4,289 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
20104,671
20204,289-382 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 35 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

857 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 857 fires within 5 miles of Old Westbury between 1993 and 2020, burning about 391 acres in total. 57 started naturally. 72 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/undetermined516
Smoking97
Arson/incendiarism72
Natural57
Equipment and vehicle use41
Power generation/transmission/distribution36
Debris and open burning19
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
6 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution2.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.3 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
5 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Old Westbury: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Mccormack Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Port Washington PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working 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
Wheatley1.3 miles35
East Hills1.5 miles34
Greenvale2.2 miles34
Westbury2.4 miles35
Brookville2.4 miles35
Roslyn Heights2.5 miles34
Albertson2.5 miles34
Carle Place2.6 miles35

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 Old WestburyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2710615The 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 959332. 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.