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Bohemia, New York

33 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 11716. The Survey maps it on the Patchogue quadrangle. 9,852 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 66 feet above sea level.

Bohemia 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 Bohemia, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Bohemia, surveyed 1902

On record in Bohemia

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

Population over time

2 figures

Bohemia fell from 10,180 to 9,852 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
201010,180
20209,852-328 (-3%)

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

1,269 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,269 fires within 5 miles of Bohemia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 804 acres in total. 79 started naturally. 193 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/undetermined892
Arson/incendiarism193
Natural79
Smoking32
Debris and open burning20
Equipment and vehicle use19
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Recreation and ceremony12
Power generation/transmission/distribution4

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 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWertheim National Wildlife RefugeNYWHR-FY20-WF-SAYVILLE 6
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWertheim National Wildlife RefugeNYWHR-FY20-WF-SAYVILLE 5

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bohemia: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Nassau Clay MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Nassau Clay MineClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this place

6 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bohemia in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 2019Thunderstorm WindBohemia$4,000A large tree down at Sayville Middle School.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBohemia$4,000A large tree down on Locust Avenue and Brooktreet Court.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindBohemia$4,000Multiple trees down on Walnut Avenue.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindBohemia$1,000Power lines were reported down on Broadway Avenue in the Town of Islip.
July 2025Flash FloodBohemia-Video showing an SUV with floodwaters up to the windows in a parking lot.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindBohemia-A thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph was reported.

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
Oakdale2.1 miles30
Lakeland2.7 miles33
Sayville Heights2.7 miles29
Sayville2.9 miles29
West Sayville3.0 miles29
Ronkonkoma3.2 miles33
North Great River3.3 miles30
Holbrook3.6 miles33

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 BohemiaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3468957The 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 944396. 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.

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.