Place:Babylon (town), Suffolk, New York, United States

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The Town of Babylon is one of ten towns in Suffolk County, New York, United States. Its population was 218,223 as of the 2020 census. Parts of Jones Beach Island, Captree Island and Fire Island are in the southernmost part of the town. It borders Nassau County to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the south. At its westernmost point, it is about from New York City at the Queens border, and about from Manhattan. The village of Babylon is also within the town.

History

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The region was once called Huntington South. Nathaniel Conklin moved his family to the area, and around 1803 named it New Babylon, after the ancient city of Babylon.

The town was officially formed in 1872 by a partition of the Town of Huntington.^[1]

Communities and locations

The following communities and locations are within the Town of Babylon:^[2]

Villages

• Amityville, in the southwestern part of the town.
• Babylon, in the southeastern section of the town.
• Lindenhurst, in the southern part of the town, between the villages of Babylon and Amityville.

Hamlets

• Captree or Captree Island
• Copiague
• Deer Park
• East Farmingdale
• Gilgo, includes communities of West Gilgo Beach, Gilgo Beach, and Cedar Beach
• North Amityville
• North Babylon
• North Lindenhurst
• Oak Beach, includes community of Oak Island
• West Babylon
• Wheatley Heights
• Wyandanch

Other communities

• Amity Harbor, in the hamlet of Amityville
• Copiague Harbor, in the hamlet of Copiague

Islands

• Captree Island, an island partly in the southeastern part of the town and containing part of Captree State Park.
• Cedar Island, an island in the Great South Bay.
• Gilgo Island, an island in the western end of the Great South Bay.
• Grass Island, an island in the Great South Bay.
• Thatch Island, an island in the Great South Bay.
• Oak Island, an island in the Great South Bay.

Beaches

• Cedar Beach
• Gilgo Beach
• Oak Beach
• Overlook Beach

State parks

• Belmont Lake State Park, a state park in the northeastern part of the town.
• Captree State Park, a state park partly in the southeastern section of the town and adjacent to the Fire Island Inlet.
• Gilgo State Park, an undeveloped preserve on a barrier island on the southern side of the town.
• Robert Moses State Park, a state park on Fire Island, is partly in the town.

Other

• Fire Island Inlet, a passage between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great South Bay.
• The town was featured in the American version of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. Ramsay spent a week at Peter's, an Italian eatery that's now out of business.
• Tanner Park, Town of Babylon, Copaigue, New York

Research Tips

External Links

• Outstanding guide to Babylon family history and genealogy resources (FamilySearch Research Wiki). Birth, marriage, and death records, town histories, cemeteries, churches, newspapers, libraries, and genealogical societies.