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US Post Office-Mineola

Built in 1936 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“Post Office in Mineola, New York serves the ZIP Code 11501, covering that community in the Towns of North Hempstead and Hempstead, New York, United States, the seat of Long Island's Nassau County. It is located on the northeast corner of the junction of First and Main Streets.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Mineola, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau County · listed in 1989 · category: Building · built in 1936, Colonial Revival architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. US Post Office--Mineola - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Main and First Sts., Mineola, 11501
When was it listed? May 1989
Category. building
Also known as. US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
Town. North Hempstead town
When was it built? 1936
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 88002354 - 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

1,217 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,217 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Mineola between 2000 and 2020, burning about 496 acres in total. 65 started naturally. 110 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	738
Smoking	130
Arson/incendiarism	110
Natural	65
Equipment and vehicle use	59
Power generation/transmission/distribution	50
Debris and open burning	24
Recreation and ceremony	23
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

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mineola, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 4 flash flood, 3 hail, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineola	$4,000	A tree was down across the Long Island Railroad tracks at the junction of East Williston and Hillside Avenues, just northwest of Mineola.
July 2019	Flash Flood	Mineola	-	Cars were stuck under the Long Island Railroad bridge on Jericho Turnpike in Mineola due to flooding.
August 2012	Flash Flood	Mineola	-	In Mineola, nine feet of water accumulated under the railroad tressel near Elm Pl. and Jericho Turnpike.
June 2010	Hail	Mineola	-	Nickle to quarter size hail was reported in East Williston.
August 2008	Flash Flood	Mineola	-	The intersection of Jericho Tpke and Elm Pl. in Mineola was closed due to flooding with 8 to 12 inches of water on the road. A mesonet station in Floral Park recorded a storm total rainfall amount of 1.47 inches.
October 2007	Flash Flood	Mineola	-	Flash flooding caused the closure of Roslyn Road in Mineola and portions of the Northern State Parkway near Route 107.
September 2001	Hail	Mineola	-	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineola	-	no account filed
August 1997	Hail	Mineola	-	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
Old Nassau County Courthouse	0.4 miles	1978
Nassau County Courthouse	0.4 miles	2021
House at 18 Seventeenth Avenue	0.6 miles	1988
House at 240 Sea Cliff Avenue	0.7 miles	1988
East Williston Village Historic District	1.0 miles	1985
US Post Office-Garden City	1.3 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002354 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.