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Bay Shore, New York

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Islip town. It lies in ZIP code area 11706. It stands on Awixa Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bay Shore East quadrangle. 29,244 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Bay Shore within Suffolk County

Then and now

1902 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bay Shore, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Bay Shore, surveyed 1902

On record in Bay Shore

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 7 records

Population over time

2 figures

Bay Shore grew from 26,337 to 29,244 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201026,337
202029,244+2,907 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 30 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

1,117 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,117 fires within 5 miles of Bay Shore between 1992 and 2020, burning about 821 acres in total. 107 started naturally. 305 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/undetermined617
Arson/incendiarism305
Natural107
Debris and open burning21
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Smoking18
Equipment and vehicle use17
Recreation and ceremony9
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2018Arson/incendiarism3.1 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bay Shore: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bay Shore PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Nassau Clay MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Nassau Clay MineClayPast Producer

Every working 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
North Bay Shore1.2 miles33
Brightwaters1.2 miles33
Islip1.9 miles30
West Bay Shore2.2 miles33
The Moorings2.6 miles30
Bay Wood3.0 miles34
Islip Terrace3.1 miles30
Deer Run3.1 miles30

Elsewhere

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.

Wikipedia article on Bay ShoreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q384692The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 943194. 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.

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.