Port Richmond, New York

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.

1898 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 6 records

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

• Temple Emanu-Ellisted 2007 · 0.2 miles away
• Scott-Edwards Houselisted 1983 · 0.8 miles away
• Immanuel Union Churchlisted 2018 · 0.9 miles away
• Reformed Church on Staten Islandlisted 2005 · 0.5 miles away
• Richmond Terrace Cemeterieslisted 2016 · 0.9 miles away
• West Brighton Plazalisted 2024 · 0.9 miles away

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.

• 1898 USGS Staten Island quadrangle1:62500
• 1900 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Staten Island quadrangle1:62500, 10 printings
• 1905 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1942 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000
• 1944 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1947 USGS Elizabeth quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Elizabeth quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1964 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1967 USGS Elizabeth quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1984 USGS Newark quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Newark quadrangle1:100000
• 1995 USGS Elizabeth quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,639 fires within 5 miles of Port Richmond between 1992 and 2020, burning about 812 acres in total. 173 started naturally. 106 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:

• Edwin Markham Gardens
• West New Brighton
• Graniteville
• Hamilton Park
• New Brighton
• Saint George

Every fire recorded in Richmond County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Port Richmond: 5 past producers, 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Kaolin, REE. 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 Richmond County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Richmond in 8 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 hail, 1 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.

Every storm recorded in Richmond County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 970495. 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.

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.