Built in 1900. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.
From the record
“Cypress Avenue East Historic District is a national historic district in Ridgewood, Queens, New York. It includes 247 contributing buildings built between 1900 and 1914.”
Wikipedia article Cypress Avenue East Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 108 National Register listings published here for Queens County · listed in 1983 · category: District · built in 1900.
National Register reference number.83001767- 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.
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
2,827 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2,827 fires within 5 miles of Cypress Avenue East Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,311 acres in total. 163 started naturally. 180 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
2032
Arson/incendiarism
180
Natural
163
Smoking
148
Equipment and vehicle use
93
Misuse of fire by a minor
93
Debris and open burning
87
Recreation and ceremony
19
Power generation/transmission/distribution
8
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Fireworks
2
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
6 workings within 5 miles of Cypress Avenue East Historic District: 3 unknowns, 3 occurrences.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Molybdenum, Beryllium. 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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