Roosevelt, New York
29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Hempstead town. It lies in ZIP code area 11575. The Survey maps it on the Freeport quadrangle. 18,066 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 39 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1897 to 1994The 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.


Compare 1897 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresRoosevelt grew from 16,258 to 18,066 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 16,258 | |
| 2020 | 18,066 | +1,808 (+11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 29 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1897 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
- 1898 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
- 1899 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500, 9 printings
- 1947 USGS Freeport quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Freeport quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS Freeport quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Freeport quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1,231 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,231 fires within 5 miles of Roosevelt between 1992 and 2020, burning about 521 acres in total. 50 started naturally. 136 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/undetermined | 758 |
| Smoking | 162 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 136 |
| Natural | 50 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 45 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 35 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 22 |
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 8 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2005 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 6 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Roosevelt: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Wollastonite, Garnet. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deershead | Wollastonite, Garnet | Occurrence | Wollastonite |
Storms near this place
5 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roosevelt in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2021: 4 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roosevelt | $1,000 | Tree reported down on Southern State Parkway westbound between Exit 21 - Nassau Road and Exit 20 N - Baldwin Road. Right lane and shoulder blocked. |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | Roosevelt | - | The intersection of Long Beach Road and Weir Street was closed due to flooding in Hempstead. |
| July 2014 | Flash Flood | Roosevelt | - | Peninsula Blvd. was closed in Woodmere due to flooding. Additionally, numerous underpasses on the Southern State Pkwy. in Hempstead, including Peninsula Blvd., Long Beach Rd., and Millburn Ave. were also closed due to flooding. |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Roosevelt | - | In Elmont, fire fighters had to pull two people out of their cars on the Southern State Parkway near Exit 19 after their vehicle was submerged in high water. |
| August 2010 | Flash Flood | Roosevelt | - | A vehicle became stuck in flood waters and the occupant was rescued by the local fire department on Long Beach Rd. at the Southern State underpass in South Hempstead. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Hempstead | 1.4 miles | 29 | |
| Freeport | 1.5 miles | 29 | |
| Uniondale | 1.5 miles | 29 | |
| North Merrick | 1.6 miles | 29 | |
| Baldwin | 1.9 miles | 29 | |
| Merrick | 2.3 miles | 29 | |
| Millburn | 2.4 miles | 29 | |
| Hempstead | 2.5 miles | 29 |
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 Roosevelt | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3451834 | The 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 962860. 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.














