Mineola, NY
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| Incorporated Village of Mineola | |
Old Nassau County Courthouse
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 Location in Nassau County and the state of New York. |
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 Mineola
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| Coordinates: 40°44′50″N 73°38′17″W / 40.74722°N 73.63806°WCoordinates: 40°44′50″N 73°38′17″W / 40.74722°N 73.63806°W | |
| Country |
 United States
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 New York
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| County | Nassau |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Scott Strauss |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2.2 sq mi (4.8 km2) |
| • Land | 2.2 sq mi (4.8 km2) |
| • Water | 0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2) |
| Elevation | 108 ft (33 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 18,799 |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 11501 |
| Area code(s) | 516 |
| FIPS code | 36-47636 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0957391 |
| Website | www |
Mineola is a village in Nassau County, Long Island, New York, USA. The population was 18,799 at the 2010 census. The name is derived from an Algonquin word meaning a "pleasant place".
Most of the Incorporated Village of Mineola is in the Town of North Hempstead, with a small portion of its southern edge within the Town of Hempstead. Old Country Road runs along the village's southern border. The area serviced by the Mineola Post Office extends farther south into the adjacent village of Garden City, New York, where the county seat of Nassau County is located. Offices of many Nassau County agencies are in both Mineola and Garden City.
The central, flat, grassy part of Long Island was originally named "Hempstead Plains". In the 19th century various communities were started. One of them was called "Hempstead Branch", and finally, "Mineola".
Long Island was part of Henry Hudson's original claim in the name of the Dutch East India Company dating as far back as 1609. In the 18th century the Dutch and English settlers worked to clear farmland to start their life on the Hempstead Plains. It was in 1858 when this land was named after an Algonquin Indian Chief, Miniolagamika meaning, "Pleasant Village". The name was later shortened and altered to "Mineola".
From about 1787 until the 1870s, the area was the county seat for Queens County, in a section then known as Clowesville, just outside the present village boundaries. The western portion of Queens became a borough of New York City in 1898, and in 1899 Nassau County was formed from the part of Queens that did not so consolidate. Voters selected Mineola (in the Town of North Hempstead) to be the county seat for the new county of Nassau in November 1898 (before Mineola incorporated as a village in 1906 and set its boundaries), winning out over Hicksville and Hempstead. The Garden City Company (founded in 1893 by the heirs of Alexander Turney Stewart) donated four acres of land for the county buildings just south of the Mineola train station and the present day Village of Mineola, in the Town of Hempstead.
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