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Westbury, New York

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in North Hempstead town. It lies in ZIP code area 11590. The Survey maps it on the Hicksville quadrangle.

Westbury 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 Westbury, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Westbury, surveyed 1897

On record in Westbury

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

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

1,260 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,260 fires within 5 miles of Westbury between 1993 and 2020, burning about 542 acres in total. 62 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/undetermined777
Smoking147
Arson/incendiarism136
Natural62
Equipment and vehicle use54
Power generation/transmission/distribution34
Debris and open burning23
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Recreation and ceremony7
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
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2015Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this place

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westbury in 2 storm reports between 1995 and 2005: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2005Flash FloodWestbury-Torrential rains caused flash flooding of Streets.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindWestbury-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
New Cassel1.0 miles35
Carle Place1.2 miles35
Westbury South1.4 miles35
Salisbury1.6 miles29
East Garden City1.8 miles29
Old Westbury2.4 miles35
East Williston2.5 miles34
Mineola2.8 miles29

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 970896. 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.

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.