Crown Heights North Historic District (Boundary Increase)
Built in 1942. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.
From the record
“Crown Heights North Historic District is a national historic district located in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, Kings County, New York. The district encompasses 1,019 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Brooklyn.”
Wikipedia article Crown Heights North Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 207 National Register listings published here for Kings County · listed in 2016 · category: District · built in 1942.
National Register reference number. 16000111 - 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
2,283 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2,283 fires within 5 miles of Crown Heights North Historic District (Boundary Increase)
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 806 acres in total. 133 started naturally. 181 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
1621
Arson/incendiarism
181
Natural
133
Smoking
108
Debris and open burning
75
Equipment and vehicle use
59
Misuse of fire by a minor
58
Fireworks
21
Recreation and ceremony
15
Railroad operations and maintenance
8
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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
3 workings within 5 miles of Crown Heights North Historic District (Boundary Increase): 3 unknowns.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Iron. 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 middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, 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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