Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Lodge Number 878
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.
From the record
“Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Lodge Number 878 is a historic Elks lodge on Queens Boulevard in the Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens in New York City. The Italian Renaissance-style main building and two-story annex were both built in 1923-1924 and designed by the Ballinger Company.”
Wikipedia article Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Lodge Number 878, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 108 National Register listings published here for Queens County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.
National Register reference number. 14000938 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1889 to 1995
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18891995
Fires near this property
2,387 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2,387 fires within 5 miles of Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Lodge Number 878
between 2002 and 2020, burning about 544 acres in total. 144 started naturally. 123 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
1682
Smoking
153
Natural
144
Arson/incendiarism
123
Misuse of fire by a minor
96
Equipment and vehicle use
81
Debris and open burning
67
Recreation and ceremony
27
Power generation/transmission/distribution
10
Railroad operations and maintenance
4
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Lodge Number 878: 4 occurrences, 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Molybdenum, Beryllium, Garnet, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
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.
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.
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