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.
Then and now
1901 to 1994The 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.


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
Frank W. Smith Houselisted 2010
Topographic sheets covering this place
16 surveys from 33 printed sheetsMatched 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
Fires near this place
1,141 since 2000Regional 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/undetermined | 863 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 72 |
| Natural | 68 |
| Smoking | 53 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 30 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 19 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 September 2005 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 7 September 2005 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2019 | Lightning | Amityville | 1 hurt, $6,000 | Lightning struck a man and the home. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amityville | $5,000 | A tree crushed a fence on Deauville Boulevard in Copiague. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amityville | $2,000 | A tree down on Ketcham Avenue with outdoor furniture damage. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amityville | $2,000 | Tree down with outdoor furniture damage. |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amityville | $1,000 | Multiple trees were reported down around Amityville. |
| August 2014 | Flash Flood | Amityville | - | Six to ten inches of flowing water accumulated on Union Ave. in Amityville. |
| August 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Amityville | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Heavy Rain | Amityville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copiague | 0.9 miles | 33 | |
| North Amityville | 1.4 miles | 33 | |
| Amity Harbor | 1.5 miles | 33 | |
| Frontier Park | 1.7 miles | 33 | |
| Copiague Harbor | 2.0 miles | 33 | |
| Lindenhurst | 2.4 miles | 33 | |
| Maywood | 3.0 miles | 33 | |
| North Lindenhurst | 3.1 miles | 33 |
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.















