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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.

Massapequa within Nassau County

Then and now

1901 to 1994

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Massapequa, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Massapequa, surveyed 1901

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

Population over time

2 figures

Massapequa 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.

YearPeople Change
201021,685
202021,355-330 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

1,372 since 2000

Regional 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/undetermined966
Arson/incendiarism131
Smoking92
Natural70
Equipment and vehicle use28
Power generation/transmission/distribution26
Railroad operations and maintenance25
Debris and open burning19
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this place

8 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1997Thunderstorm WindNorth Massapequa1 hurtno account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindNorth Massapequa$4,000Trees and wires were reported down in North Massapequa.
June 2010HailNorth Massapequa-Quarter size hail was reported on Hyman Drive in Farmingdale.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindMassapequa-Trees were downed. One fell on a car.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindMassapequa-no account filed
September 1998Thunderstorm WindMassapequa-no account filed
August 1997HailNorth Massapequa-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindNorth Massapequa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nassau 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
Massapequa Park1.0 miles33
Biltmore Shores1.2 miles33
Seaford1.3 miles33
North Massapequa1.5 miles33
Wantagh1.9 miles29
North Wantagh2.0 miles29
East Massapequa2.1 miles33
Harbor Green2.2 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 MassapequaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q954079The 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.