Lower Melville, New York

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Huntington town. It lies in ZIP code area 11747. The Survey maps it on the Huntington quadrangle.

Lower Melville 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 Lower Melville, surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of Lower Melville, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 32 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 Northport quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Northport quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1904 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1942 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000
1947 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
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
1967 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

768 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 768 fires within 5 miles of Lower Melville between 2000 and 2020, burning about 313 acres in total. 82 started naturally. 74 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	447
Natural	82
Arson/incendiarism	74
Smoking	62
Equipment and vehicle use	33
Debris and open burning	30
Power generation/transmission/distribution	17
Railroad operations and maintenance	15
Recreation and ceremony	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2005	Smoking	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
7 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
7 September 2013	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 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

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 Lower Melville: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Thorium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Atomergic Chemetals/Plainview, N.Y.	Thorium	Unknown
	Controlled Castings/Plainview, N.Y.	Thorium	Unknown

Every working 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
Melville	1.9 miles	32
East Farmingdale	2.6 miles	33
Wheatley Heights	2.8 miles	34
Maywood	3.0 miles	33
Wyandanch	3.5 miles	34
West Hills	3.5 miles	32
South Huntington	4.2 miles	32
North Lindenhurst	4.2 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.

Wikidata item Q122556468

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 972744. 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.