West Sayville, New York

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1902 1984

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 3 records

• MODESTY (south-sider Sloop)National Historic Landmark · listed 2001
• Priscilla (Long Island Sound Oyster Sloop)National Historic Landmark · listed 2006
• Rudolph Oyster HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 2001

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.

• 1902 USGS Fire Island quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Fire Island quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
• 1904 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1942 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000
• 1947 USGS Sayville quadrangle1:24000
• 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Sayville quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1967 USGS Sayville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 807 fires within 5 miles of West Sayville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 612 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 89 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Bohemia
• Bay Shore
• Central Islip
• Deer Run
• East Islip
• Great River

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Sayville in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

Every storm recorded in Suffolk County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 970860. 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.