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Amityville, New York

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Babylon town. It lies in ZIP code area 11701. It stands on Amityville Creek. The Survey maps it on the Amityville quadrangle.

Amityville within Suffolk County

Then and now

1901 to 1994

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.

Topographic sheet of Amityville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Amityville, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

On record in Amityville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 33 printed sheets

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.

Fires near this place

1,141 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,141 fires within 5 miles of Amityville between 2000 and 2020, burning about 478 acres in total. 68 started naturally. 72 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/undetermined863
Arson/incendiarism72
Natural68
Smoking53
Railroad operations and maintenance30
Equipment and vehicle use19
Debris and open burning15
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Recreation and ceremony4

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2010Missing 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
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
7 September 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amityville in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2019: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
June 2019LightningAmityville1 hurt, $6,000Lightning struck a man and the home.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindAmityville$5,000A tree crushed a fence on Deauville Boulevard in Copiague.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindAmityville$2,000A tree down on Ketcham Avenue with outdoor furniture damage.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindAmityville$2,000Tree down with outdoor furniture damage.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindAmityville$1,000Multiple trees were reported down around Amityville.
August 2014Flash FloodAmityville-Six to ten inches of flowing water accumulated on Union Ave. in Amityville.
August 2006Tornado (F0)Amityville-no account filed
August 2000Heavy RainAmityville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Suffolk County

Nearest settlements

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

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Copiague0.9 miles33
North Amityville1.4 miles33
Amity Harbor1.5 miles33
Frontier Park1.7 miles33
Copiague Harbor2.0 miles33
Lindenhurst2.4 miles33
Maywood3.0 miles33
North Lindenhurst3.1 miles33

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 942440. 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.

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.