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Valley Stream, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Hempstead town. It lies in ZIP code area 11580. The Survey maps it on the Lynbrook quadrangle. 40,634 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Valley Stream 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 Valley Stream, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Valley Stream, surveyed 1897

On record in Valley Stream

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

Valley Stream grew from 37,511 to 40,634 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
201037,511
202040,634+3,123 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 29 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

1,063 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,063 fires within 5 miles of Valley Stream between 2000 and 2020, burning about 349 acres in total. 51 started naturally. 124 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/undetermined657
Arson/incendiarism124
Smoking70
Power generation/transmission/distribution57
Natural51
Misuse of fire by a minor31
Equipment and vehicle use27
Debris and open burning24
Recreation and ceremony19
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Valley Stream: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bay Shore PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Valley Stream in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 5 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2016Thunderstorm WindValley Stream$3,000Multiple trees and large branches were reported down throughout Valley Stream.
January 2024Flash FloodValley Stream-Flower Road near Forest Road Elementary school closed due to flooding.
June 2007Flash FloodValley Stream-Multiple streets flooded.
September 2004Flash FloodValley Stream-Torrential rains flooded the Sunrise Highway, resulting in closure.
August 2002Flash FloodValley Stream-Torrential rain caused significant urban flooding from Valley Stream to Rockville Center. In Valley Stream, water ponded up to 2 1/2 feet deep in low lying areas.
January 1999Flash FloodValley Stream-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
Green Acres0.6 miles29
South Valley Stream0.8 miles29
North Woodmere1.3 miles29
North Valley Stream1.5 miles29
Hewlett1.6 miles29
Lynbrook2.0 miles29
Malverne2.1 miles29
Alden Manor2.1 miles29

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 Valley StreamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3476571The 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 968364. 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.