Built in 1932 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.
From the record
“US Post Office-Freeport is a historic post office building located at Freeport in the town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, United States.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Freeport, 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 1932, Colonial Revival architecture.
National Register reference number.88002517- 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
1897 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18971994
Fires near this property
823 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 823 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Freeport
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 332 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 88 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
518
Smoking
99
Arson/incendiarism
88
Natural
39
Power generation/transmission/distribution
27
Equipment and vehicle use
24
Misuse of fire by a minor
13
Debris and open burning
11
Recreation and ceremony
3
Other causes
1
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
1 working within 5 miles of US Post Office-Freeport: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Freeport, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 1 coastal flood, 1 rip current, 1 flood, 1 lightning.
The reports record 1 death and 3 injuries. 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.
One fisherman was missing, and presumed dead, and another fisherman was rescued in the waters off Civic Beach after their 21 foot motorized fishing boat overturned in rough seas. A 27 year old male was presumed dead after a Coast Guard search was called off the next evening. A 40 year old male was rescued and treated for a fractured rib, ingested sea water, and hypothermia from the 57 degree water. Two rescuers also suffered minor injuries when a large wave crashed into their boat. Buoy 44025, located approximately 20 nautical miles south of Fire Island, measured east-northeast winds of 25 to 30 knots with gusts to around 35 knots and seas of 12 feet around the time of the incident. The Coast Guard reported that neither man was wearing a life jacket when the boat overturned.
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.
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.
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.
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