Queens, New York

The same ground, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1889 1994

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 12 of 15 shown

• 1964-1965 New York World's Fair Carousellisted 2016
• 45th Road-Court House Square Station (Dual System IRT)listed 2005
• Elmhurst Avenue Subway Station (IND)listed 2005
• Far Rockaway Beach Bungalow Historic Districtlisted 2013
• Flushing High Schoollisted 1992
• Jackson Heights Historic Districtlisted 1999
• Long Island Motor Parkwaylisted 2002
• Old Town of Flushing Burial Groundlisted 2018
• Parkway Villagelisted 2012
• Richmond Hill Historic Districtlisted 2019
• Sohmer and Company Piano Factorylisted 2014
• St. Matthias Roman Catholic Church Complexlisted 2012

Every listing in Queens 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.

• 1889 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
• 1891 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
• 1897 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1898 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
• 1900 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500, 11 printings
• 1947 USGS Jamaica quadrangle1:24000
• 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Jamaica quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1966 USGS Jamaica quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
• 1979 USGS Jamaica quadrangle1:24000
• 1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Jamaica quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,029 fires within 5 miles of Queens between 2000 and 2020, burning about 479 acres in total. 114 started naturally. 105 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:

• Fresh Meadows
• Bellaire
• Flushing
• Hollis
• Murray Hill
• Saint Albans

Every fire recorded in Queens County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Queens: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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.

Every working recorded in Queens County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Queens in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 Queens 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 971983. 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.