Old Nassau County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“The Old Nassau County Courthouse, also known as the Nassau County Courthouse and the Historic Nassau County Courthouse, is a two-story courthouse building located at 1550 Franklin Avenue in Garden City, New York, United States. Formerly the courthouse for Nassau County on Long Island, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Old Nassau County Courthouse (New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1550 Franklin Ave., Garden City, 11530
When was it listed? February 1978
Category. building
Town. Hempstead town
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
Architect. William Tubby
National Register reference number. 78001863 - 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

1,250 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,250 fires within 5 miles of Old Nassau County Courthouse between 2000 and 2020, burning about 508 acres in total. 66 started naturally. 120 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	755
Smoking	133
Arson/incendiarism	120
Natural	66
Equipment and vehicle use	59
Power generation/transmission/distribution	53
Debris and open burning	24
Recreation and ceremony	22
Misuse of fire by a minor	16
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 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
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	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this property

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garden City, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2008: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Garden City	$1,000	Trees were reported down in Garden City.
June 2008	Hail	Garden City	-	Nickel to quarter size hail was reported in Garden City.
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Garden City	-	no account filed

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
Nassau County Courthouse	0.3 miles	2021
US Post Office-Mineola	0.4 miles	1989
House at 18 Seventeenth Avenue	0.9 miles	1988
House at 240 Sea Cliff Avenue	0.9 miles	1988
US Post Office-Garden City	1.0 miles	1989
A. T. Stewart Era Buildings	1.0 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78001863 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.
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.