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Woodsburgh, 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 Lawrence quadrangle. 897 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7 feet above sea level.

Woodsburgh 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 Woodsburgh, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Woodsburgh, surveyed 1897

Population over time

2 figures

Woodsburgh grew from 778 to 897 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
2010778
2020897+119 (+15%)

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

724 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 724 fires within 5 miles of Woodsburgh between 2000 and 2020, burning about 256 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 71 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/undetermined467
Arson/incendiarism71
Smoking49
Misuse of fire by a minor34
Natural32
Power generation/transmission/distribution32
Equipment and vehicle use20
Debris and open burning15
Recreation and ceremony3
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 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder 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
6 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
6 September 2010Missing 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

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
Hewlett Neck0.5 miles29
Woodmere0.6 miles29
Cedarhurst0.8 miles29
Ocean Point0.9 miles29
Hewlett Bay Park0.9 miles29
Lawrence1.3 miles29
Hewlett1.5 miles29
Hewlett Harbor1.7 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 WoodsburghAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3448904The 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 971715. 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.