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Lindenhurst, New York

33 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 11757. It stands on Neguntatogue Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bay Shore West quadrangle. 27,148 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 30 feet above sea level.

Lindenhurst 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 Lindenhurst, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Lindenhurst, surveyed 1901

Population over time

2 figures

Lindenhurst fell from 27,253 to 27,148 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
201027,253
202027,148-105 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

1,032 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,032 fires within 5 miles of Lindenhurst between 2000 and 2020, burning about 484 acres in total. 79 started naturally. 67 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/undetermined731
Natural79
Arson/incendiarism67
Smoking48
Railroad operations and maintenance33
Debris and open burning29
Equipment and vehicle use24
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony4

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
7 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Missing 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

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lindenhurst in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLindenhurst1 hurt, $500A large tree limb fell on a 7 year old boy in Lindenhurst, causing a head injury.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindNorth Lindenhurst$3,000Large tree branches down between porch and fence with time estimated by radar.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindLindenhurst$1,000Tree limbs down in Lindenhurst.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindNorth Lindenhurst-Two trees were downed in Lindenhurst.
August 2008HailNorth Lindenhurst-Penny size hail was reported.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindNorth Lindenhurst-Multiple large tree limbs down.
July 2012HailNorth Lindenhurst-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindLindenhurst-no account filed
April 2000Flash FloodLindenhurst-no account filed
January 1999Flash FloodLindenhurst-no account filed
October 1996Flash FloodLindenhurst-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
Copiague1.4 miles33
Copiague Harbor1.8 miles33
North Lindenhurst1.9 miles33
Amity Harbor2.1 miles33
Amityville2.4 miles33
West Babylon2.4 miles33
Babylon2.6 miles33
North Amityville2.8 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 LindenhurstAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2336904The 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 955404. 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.