Woodmere, 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 11598. It lies near Three Cornered Hassock. The Survey maps it on the Lynbrook quadrangle. 18,669 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 23 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1897 to 1984The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresWoodmere grew from 17,121 to 18,669 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 | 17,121 | |
| 2020 | 18,669 | +1,548 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 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 Lynbrook quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Lynbrook quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS Lynbrook quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
815 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 815 fires within 5 miles of Woodmere between 2000 and 2020, burning about 284 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 85 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 | 517 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 85 |
| Smoking | 53 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 41 |
| Natural | 39 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 35 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 23 |
| Debris and open burning | 17 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.9 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
| 7 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 September 2016 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 6 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 6 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodmere in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2015: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodmere | $1,000 | Downed power lines were reported in Cedarhurst on the Rockaway Turnpike. |
| August 2015 | Flash Flood | Woodmere | - | Meadow Lane was closed from Broadway to Kenridge Road in Lawrence due to flash flooding. |
| June 1998 | Lightning | Woodmere | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodmere | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodsburgh | 0.6 miles | 29 | |
| Cedarhurst | 0.9 miles | 29 | |
| Hewlett Bay Park | 0.9 miles | 29 | |
| Ocean Point | 1.0 miles | 29 | |
| Hewlett Neck | 1.0 miles | 29 | |
| Hewlett | 1.2 miles | 29 | |
| North Woodmere | 1.4 miles | 29 | |
| Lawrence | 1.4 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 Woodmere | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2668941 | 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 971684. 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.













