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Maywood, New York

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Babylon town. It lies in ZIP code area 11735. The Survey maps it on the Amityville quadrangle.

Maywood within Suffolk 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 Maywood, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Maywood, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

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

1,371 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,371 fires within 5 miles of Maywood between 2000 and 2020, burning about 555 acres in total. 76 started naturally. 106 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/undetermined976
Arson/incendiarism106
Smoking86
Natural76
Debris and open burning37
Railroad operations and maintenance31
Equipment and vehicle use28
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Recreation and ceremony5

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
9 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot 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 Maywood: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Atomergic Chemetals/Plainview, N.Y.ThoriumUnknown
Controlled Castings/Plainview, N.Y.ThoriumUnknown

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
East Farmingdale0.6 miles33
Frontier Park1.4 miles33
North Amityville1.7 miles33
North Lindenhurst2.4 miles33
Lower Melville3.0 miles32
Amityville3.0 miles33
Copiague3.1 miles33
Lindenhurst3.7 miles33

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 972777. 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.