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Seaford, New York

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Hempstead town. It lies in ZIP code area 11783. It stands on Seafood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Amityville quadrangle. 15,251 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Seaford 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 Seaford, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Seaford, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Seaford fell from 15,294 to 15,251 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
201015,294
202015,251-43 (-0%)

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

1,239 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,239 fires within 5 miles of Seaford between 2000 and 2020, burning about 503 acres in total. 58 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/undetermined857
Arson/incendiarism131
Smoking94
Natural58
Power generation/transmission/distribution25
Equipment and vehicle use25
Debris and open burning18
Railroad operations and maintenance18
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Recreation and ceremony1

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 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
7 September 2005Smokingunder 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 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Seaford in 8 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 3 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
February 2016Thunderstorm WindSeaford$10,000A large tree was reported down on the house at the intersection of Chicago and Forest Avenues.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindSeaford$1,000Tree down on Ocean Avenue at Ohio Avenue reported by Nassau County traffic management.
February 2016Thunderstorm WindSeaford$1,000A large tree limb was reported down on a house along Washington Avenue.
September 2020Flash FloodSeaford-Several roads were reported flooded in Seaford including Jackson Avenue near the intersection with Fulton Avenue and the intersection of Washington Avenue and Sunrise Highway.
September 2015Flash FloodSeaford-Sunrise Highway at Seaford Avenue in Massapequa was closed due to flash flooding.
August 2011Flash FloodSeaford-In Seaford, the westbound exit ramp to Merrick Rd. from Rt. 135, the Seaford Oyster Bay Expwy., was closed due to flooding.
March 2009HailSeaford-Nickel size hail was reported in Massapequa.
July 2008HailSeaford-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
Biltmore Shores1.2 miles33
Massapequa1.3 miles33
Wantagh1.7 miles29
Harbor Green1.8 miles33
Massapequa Park2.0 miles33
Bellmore2.1 miles29
North Wantagh2.2 miles29
Nassau Shores2.6 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 SeafordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3451999The 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 964724. 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.