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Bellarose Village Municipal Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“The Bellerose Village Municipal Complex is a municipal government office complex & civic center located at 50 Superior Road and Magee Plaza in the Village of Bellerose, in Nassau County, New York, United States.”
Wikipedia article Bellerose Village Municipal Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau County · listed in 2006 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. 50 Superior Rd. and Magee Plaza, Bellerose, 11001
When was it listed? September 2006
Category. district
Town. Hempstead town
National Register reference number. 06000889 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

1,735 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,735 fires within 5 miles of Bellarose Village Municipal Complex between 2000 and 2020, burning about 516 acres in total. 87 started naturally. 167 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	1113
Arson/incendiarism	167
Smoking	123
Natural	87
Power generation/transmission/distribution	67
Equipment and vehicle use	50
Recreation and ceremony	44
Debris and open burning	42
Misuse of fire by a minor	39
Railroad operations and maintenance	3

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
9 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bellarose Village Municipal Complex: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Bay Shore Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this property

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bellerose, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2020: 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellerose	$1,000	Large tree limb down in front of a house on the southeast corner of Hudson Road and Pennsylvania Boulevard.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellerose	$750	A large tree limb was blocking the westbound lane of Floral Boulevard.
August 2010	Flash Flood	Bellerose	-	Two to three feet of water accumulated at the intersection of Floral Blvd. and Daisy Ave. in Floral Park, making the road impassable. A Skywarn Spotter in Floral Park reported 3.82 inches of total rainfall.

Every storm recorded in Nassau County

Maps showing this location

14 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

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

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
St. Paul's German Presbyterian Church and Cemetery	1.7 miles	2008
Franklin Square National Bank	2.4 miles	2015
Pagan-Fletcher House	2.8 miles	1983
Cornell-Van Nostrand House	3.0 miles	2007
Valley Road Historic District	3.6 miles	1977
House at 18 Seventeenth Avenue	4.0 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000889 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nassau County	All 156 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.