Copiague Harbor, 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 11726. It stands on Howell Creek. The Survey maps it on the Amityville quadrangle.

Copiague Harbor 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 Copiague Harbor, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Copiague Harbor, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

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.

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

780 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 780 fires within 5 miles of Copiague Harbor between 2000 and 2020, burning about 304 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 35 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	630
Arson/incendiarism	35
Natural	32
Railroad operations and maintenance	28
Smoking	23
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Debris and open burning	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	3

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 2005	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
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named
6 September 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Amity Harbor	0.6 miles	33
Copiague	1.5 miles	33
Lindenhurst	1.8 miles	33
Amityville	2.0 miles	33
Gilgo Beach	3.1 miles	32
North Amityville	3.2 miles	33
Frontier Park	3.5 miles	33
North Lindenhurst	3.6 miles	33

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2096419. 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.