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Rego Park, New York

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the borough of Queens. It lies in ZIP code area 11375. The Survey maps it on the Jamaica quadrangle.

Rego Park within Queens County

Then and now

1889 to 1994

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.

Topographic sheet of Rego Park, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Rego Park, surveyed 1889

Compare 1889 against another survey:

On record in Rego Park

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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

2,605 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,605 fires within 5 miles of Rego Park between 1995 and 2020, burning about 705 acres in total. 161 started naturally. 123 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/undetermined1867
Natural161
Smoking154
Arson/incendiarism123
Misuse of fire by a minor92
Equipment and vehicle use87
Debris and open burning72
Recreation and ceremony36
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Queens 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
Walden Terrace0.4 miles35
Forest Hills0.7 miles35
Lefrak City0.9 miles35
Forest Hills Gardens1.0 miles35
Parkside1.1 miles35
Kew Gardens1.4 miles35
Corona1.5 miles35
Elmhurst1.5 miles37

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 962366. 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.