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Photograph of Flushing Meadows Carousel
Photograph by Jim.henderson, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

1964-1965 New York World's Fair Carousel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.

From the record

“The Flushing Meadows Carousel is a carousel located in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in the New York City borough of Queens. It contains four rows of figures, including 64 jumping horses, 7 standing horses, 1 menagerie animal, and 2 chariots.”

Wikipedia article Flushing Meadows Carousel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 108 National Register listings published here for Queens County · listed in 2016 · category: Structure.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 54th & 56th Aves. on 111th St., Queens, 11368
  • When was it listed? February 2016
  • Category. structure
  • Borough. Queens
  • National Register reference number. 16000038 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1889 to 1994

The 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.

Topographic sheet covering 1964-1965 New York World's Fair Carousel, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering 1964-1965 New York World's Fair Carousel, surveyed 1889

Fires near this property

2,320 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,320 fires within 5 miles of 1964-1965 New York World's Fair Carousel between 2002 and 2020, burning about 556 acres in total. 144 started naturally. 102 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/undetermined1644
Smoking152
Natural144
Arson/incendiarism102
Misuse of fire by a minor84
Equipment and vehicle use77
Debris and open burning59
Recreation and ceremony44
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Railroad operations and maintenance4

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
9 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Queens County

Storms near this property

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Queens, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1997Thunderstorm WindQueens-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Queens County

Maps showing this location

17 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Congregation Tifereth Israel0.2 miles2002
Louis Armstrong House1.0 miles1976
Rego Park Jewish Center1.0 miles2009
First Presbyterian Church of Newtown1.5 miles2013
US Post Office-Forest Hills Station1.5 miles1988
Main Street Subway Station (Dual System IRT)1.5 miles2004

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 16000038 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Queens CountyAll 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.
  • 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.