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One of 108 National Register listings published here for Queens County · listed in 2022 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Kent Manor
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 117-01 Park Ln. South, Kew Gardens, 11418
- When was it listed? April 2022
- Category. district
- Borough. Queens
- National Register reference number. 100007667 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1889 to 1994The ground this property stands on, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
3,003 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3,003 fires within 5 miles of Kent Manor between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,397 acres in total. 172 started naturally. 147 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 | 2214 |
| Natural | 172 |
| Smoking | 153 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 147 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 103 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 83 |
| Debris and open burning | 75 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 41 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 11 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
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 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 9 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 September 2005 | Smoking | 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 |
| 9 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Gateway National Recreation Area | FOUNTAIN1 |
Maps showing this location
17 surveysUnited 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.
- 1889 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
- 1891 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
- 1897 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1898 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
- 1947 USGS Jamaica quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Jamaica quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Jamaica quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Jamaica quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Jamaica quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Ralph Bunche House | 0.2 miles | 1976 |
 | Richmond Hill Historic District | 0.4 miles | 2019 |
 | Saint Luke's Episcopal Church | 0.6 miles | 2010 |
 | Church-in-the-Gardens, The | 0.7 miles | 2009 |
 | Maple Grove Cemetery | 0.7 miles | 2004 |
 | Public School 66 | 0.9 miles | 2003 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100007667 in Record Group 79. |
| Queens County | All 108 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.