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Syosset, New York

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Oyster Bay town. It lies in ZIP code area 11791. The Survey maps it on the Hicksville quadrangle. 19,259 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 217 feet above sea level.

Syosset within Nassau County

Then and now

1897 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Syosset, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Syosset, surveyed 1897

On record in Syosset

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

Population over time

2 figures

Syosset grew from 18,829 to 19,259 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.

YearPeople Change
201018,829
202019,259+430 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

401 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 401 fires within 5 miles of Syosset between 1993 and 2020, burning about 219 acres in total. 52 started naturally. 49 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/undetermined210
Natural52
Arson/incendiarism49
Smoking29
Power generation/transmission/distribution25
Equipment and vehicle use15
Debris and open burning15
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution2.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Syosset: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Thorium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Atomergic Chemetals/Plainview, N.Y.ThoriumUnknown
Controlled Castings/Plainview, N.Y.ThoriumUnknown

Every working recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Syosset in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2022Thunderstorm WindSyosset$1,000Downed tree near Northern Boulevard with all lanes blocked.
June 2007Flash FloodSyosset-Cold Spring Road after Woodbury Way was flooded.
July 2012HailSyosset-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindSyosset-no account filed
August 2001FloodSyosset-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindSyosset-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindSyosset-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindSyosset-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nassau 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
Locust Grove1.1 miles35
Woodbury1.8 miles32
East Norwich2.3 miles35
Muttontown2.4 miles35
Laurel Hollow2.7 miles32
Jericho3.1 miles35
Oyster Bay Cove3.1 miles35
Oyster Bay3.2 miles35

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 SyossetAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3056724The 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 970692. 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.