Park West Village, New York

The same ground, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1891 1995

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 12 of 52 shown

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

• Andrew Carnegie MansionNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966 · 0.8 miles away
• Central ParkNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966 · 0.8 miles away
• Solomon R. Guggenheim MuseumNational Historic Landmark · listed 2005 · 0.8 miles away
• Philosophy HallNational Historic Landmark · listed 2003 · 1.0 miles away
• Congregation Ohab Zedeklisted 2017 · 0.2 miles away
• St. Michael's Churchlisted 1996 · 0.3 miles away
• Trinity Lutheran Church of Manhattanlisted 2009 · 0.3 miles away
• Association Residence Nursing Homelisted 1975 · 0.3 miles away
• New York Cancer Hospitallisted 1977 · 0.4 miles away
• Pomander Walk Districtlisted 1983 · 0.4 miles away
• Claremont Stableslisted 1980 · 0.5 miles away
• West End Presbyterian Church and Parish Houselisted 2011 · 0.5 miles away

Every listing in New York County

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.

• 1891 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1898 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500
• 1900 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500, 16 printings
• 1947 USGS Central Park quadrangle1:24000
• 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Central Park quadrangle1:24000, 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 Central Park quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1995 USGS Central Park quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,665 fires within 5 miles of Park West Village between 1995 and 2020, burning about 486 acres in total. 96 started naturally. 100 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Carnegie Hill
• East Harlem
• Konaande Kongh (historical)
• Le Petit Senegal
• Morningside Heights
• Carmansville (historical)

Every fire recorded in New York County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Park West Village: 13 occurrences, 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Garnet, Beryllium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in New York County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2083484. 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.