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.
Then and now
1901 to 1984The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresLindenhurst 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 27,253 | |
| 2020 | 27,148 | -105 (-0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 33 printed sheetsMatched 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
- 1941 USGS Bay Shore West quadrangle1:24000
- 1942 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000
- 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Bay Shore West 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 Bay Shore West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1,032 since 2000Regional 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/undetermined | 731 |
| Natural | 79 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 67 |
| Smoking | 48 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 33 |
| Debris and open burning | 29 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 24 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 13 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
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 | Debris and open burning | 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 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 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 September 2005 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lindenhurst | 1 hurt, $500 | A large tree limb fell on a 7 year old boy in Lindenhurst, causing a head injury. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Lindenhurst | $3,000 | Large tree branches down between porch and fence with time estimated by radar. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lindenhurst | $1,000 | Tree limbs down in Lindenhurst. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Lindenhurst | - | Two trees were downed in Lindenhurst. |
| August 2008 | Hail | North Lindenhurst | - | Penny size hail was reported. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Lindenhurst | - | Multiple large tree limbs down. |
| July 2012 | Hail | North Lindenhurst | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lindenhurst | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Flash Flood | Lindenhurst | - | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Flash Flood | Lindenhurst | - | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Flash Flood | Lindenhurst | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copiague | 1.4 miles | 33 | |
| Copiague Harbor | 1.8 miles | 33 | |
| North Lindenhurst | 1.9 miles | 33 | |
| Amity Harbor | 2.1 miles | 33 | |
| Amityville | 2.4 miles | 33 | |
| West Babylon | 2.4 miles | 33 | |
| Babylon | 2.6 miles | 33 | |
| North Amityville | 2.8 miles | 33 |
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 Lindenhurst | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2336904 | The 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.














