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Deer Park, New York

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Babylon town. It lies in ZIP code area 11729. The Survey maps it on the Greenlawn quadrangle.

Deer Park within Suffolk County

Then and now

1901 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Deer Park, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Deer Park, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 34 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

1,169 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,169 fires within 5 miles of Deer Park between 2000 and 2020, burning about 624 acres in total. 114 started naturally. 266 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/undetermined635
Arson/incendiarism266
Natural114
Smoking46
Debris and open burning39
Equipment and vehicle use25
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Recreation and ceremony11
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Railroad operations and maintenance6

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
9 September 2005Debris and open burningunder 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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Deer Park: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Express Way Aggregates, Nc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deer Park in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
July 2022Thunderstorm WindDeer Park$1,000Large branches down in Deer Park NY.
October 2017Flash FloodDeer Park-Eight to ten cars were stuck in flood waters on Long Island Avenue between Carlls Path and Commack Road in Deer Park. Water was up to the top of the doors on cars.
July 2012Flash FloodDeer Park-Three feet of water accumulated at the intersection of Long Island Ave. and Commack Rd. in Deer Park, which resulted in several people trapped in their vehicles to be rescued by the local fire department. In Brentwood, all lanes of the Sagtikos Pkwy. between the Long Island Expressway and Crooked Hill Rd. were closed by NY State Police due to flooding.
August 1999Flash FloodDeer Park-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindDeer Park-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindDeer Park-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
Half Hollow1.3 miles34
Wyandanch1.7 miles34
Wheatley Heights2.2 miles34
Bay Wood2.2 miles34
Dix Hills3.0 miles34
Pine Aire3.0 miles34
North Babylon3.1 miles33
West Babylon3.3 miles33

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 948210. 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.