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Photograph of Flushing High School
Photograph by Jim.henderson, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Flushing High School

Built in 1875 (Tudor Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

“Flushing High School is a four-year public high school in Flushing, in the New York City borough of Queens. The school is operated by the New York City Department of Education.”

Wikipedia article Flushing High School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 108 National Register listings published here for Queens County · listed in 1992 · category: Building · built in 1875, Tudor Revival architecture.

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. 35-01 Union St., Queens, 11354
  • When was it listed? February 1992
  • Category. building
  • Borough. Queens
  • When was it built? 1875
  • Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 91002036 - 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

1891 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Flushing High School, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet covering Flushing High School, surveyed 1891

Fires near this property

2,163 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,163 fires within 5 miles of Flushing High School between 2000 and 2020, burning about 492 acres in total. 133 started naturally. 103 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/undetermined1560
Natural133
Smoking132
Arson/incendiarism103
Equipment and vehicle use58
Misuse of fire by a minor58
Recreation and ceremony55
Debris and open burning53
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Railroad operations and maintenance3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Every fire recorded in Queens 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 Flushing High School: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
National Gypsum/ Bronx MillGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Queens County

Storms near this property

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Queens, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1997Thunderstorm WindQueens-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Queens County

Maps showing this location

15 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Flushing Armory0.2 miles1995
Flushing Town Hall0.2 miles1972
John Bowne House0.2 miles1977
Kingsland Homestead0.2 miles1972
Old Quaker Meetinghouse0.2 miles1967
RKO Keith's Theater0.3 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91002036 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Queens CountyAll 108 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.