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US Post Office-Rockville Centre

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“US Post Office-Rockville Centre is a historic post office building located at Rockville Centre in the town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, United States. It was built in 1937 and designed by consulting architect William Dewey Foster (1890-1958) for the Office of the Supervising Architect.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Rockville Centre, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.

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--Rockville Centre - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 250 Merrick Rd., Rockville Centre, 11570
When was it listed? May 1989
Category. building
Also known as. US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
Town. Hempstead town
Architectural style. Art Deco architecture, Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 88002425 - 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

1,050 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,050 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Rockville Centre between 1992 and 2020, burning about 409 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 134 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	632
Arson/incendiarism	134
Smoking	110
Power generation/transmission/distribution	51
Natural	40
Equipment and vehicle use	36
Misuse of fire by a minor	25
Debris and open burning	12
Recreation and ceremony	8
Other causes	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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
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 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 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	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

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of US Post Office-Rockville Centre: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Wollastonite, Garnet. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Deershead	Wollastonite, Garnet	Occurrence	Wollastonite

Every working recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this property

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rockville Centre, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2011: 2 flash flood, 2 flood, 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
August 2010	Flash Flood	Rockville Centre	$20,000	Several homes on Independence Ave. in Freeport had significant amounts of water in their basements. One home had approximately 4 ft. of water damaging the oil burner and electric. Damage amounts are estimated.
September 2011	Flood	Rockville Centre	-	Brookside Ave. was closed at Centennial Ave. due to flooding in Roosevelt.
August 2011	Flood	Rockville Centre	-	The basements of several residences in Freeport were flooded with four to five feet of water.
August 2010	Flash Flood	Rockville Centre	-	A car became stuck in high flood waters at the intersection of North Main St. and Stevens St. in Freeport. The local fire department responded to rescue the three occupants of the vehicle.
August 2011	Hail	Rockville Centre	-	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
House at 474 Ocean Avenue	0.6 miles	2008
Rockville Cemetery and Bristol and Mexico Monument	0.7 miles	2015
House at 251 Rocklyn Avenue	1.0 miles	2008
Haviland-Davison Grist Mill	1.1 miles	1998
House at 73 Grove Street	1.2 miles	2008
Denton Homestead	1.3 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002425 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.
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.
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.