Massapequa, New York
33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Oyster Bay town. It lies in ZIP code area 11758. The Survey maps it on the Amityville quadrangle. 21,355 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 26 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1901 to 1994The 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.


Compare 1901 against another survey:
On record in Massapequa
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 2 records
Building at 390 Ocean Avenuelisted 2017
Grace Church Complexlisted 1983
Population over time
2 figuresMassapequa fell from 21,685 to 21,355 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 | 21,685 | |
| 2020 | 21,355 | -330 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
16 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
- 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
1,372 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,372 fires within 5 miles of Massapequa between 2000 and 2020, burning about 557 acres in total. 70 started naturally. 131 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 | 966 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 131 |
| Smoking | 92 |
| Natural | 70 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 28 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 26 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 25 |
| Debris and open burning | 19 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 September 2010 | 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 | 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 |
| 8 September 2007 | 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
8 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Massapequa in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2010: 6 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Massapequa | 1 hurt | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Massapequa | $4,000 | Trees and wires were reported down in North Massapequa. |
| June 2010 | Hail | North Massapequa | - | Quarter size hail was reported on Hyman Drive in Farmingdale. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Massapequa | - | Trees were downed. One fell on a car. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Massapequa | - | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Massapequa | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | North Massapequa | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Massapequa | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massapequa Park | 1.0 miles | 33 | |
| Biltmore Shores | 1.2 miles | 33 | |
| Seaford | 1.3 miles | 33 | |
| North Massapequa | 1.5 miles | 33 | |
| Wantagh | 1.9 miles | 29 | |
| North Wantagh | 2.0 miles | 29 | |
| East Massapequa | 2.1 miles | 33 | |
| Harbor Green | 2.2 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.
| Wikipedia article on Massapequa | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q954079 | 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 956651. 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.















