Amity Harbor, New York

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1901 1994

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1901 USGS Babylon quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Babylon quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1904 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1919 USGS Babylon quadrangle1:62500
• 1942 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000
• 1947 USGS Amityville quadrangle1:24000
• 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Amityville quadrangle1:24000
• 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 Amityville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Amityville quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 883 fires within 5 miles of Amity Harbor between 2000 and 2020, burning about 347 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 45 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Copiague Harbor
• Amityville
• Copiague
• East Farmingdale
• Lindenhurst
• Frontier Park

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 942438. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.