Smithtown, New York, United States

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🇺🇸 Smithtown is a town in Suffolk County, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island. It is part of the New York metropolitan area.

The place (CDP) of Smithtown lies within the town's borders.

History Smithtown, originally known as "Smithfield", was first settled c. 1665. Local legend has it that, after rescuing a Native American chief's abducted daughter, Richard Smith was told that the chief would grant title to all of the land Smith could encircle in one day "on a bull". Smith chose to ride the bull on the longest day of the year (summer solstice), to enable him to ride longer "in one day". The land he acquired in this way is said to approximate the current town's location. There is a large, anatomically correct, statue of Smith's bull, known as Whisper, at the fork of Jericho Turnpike (New York State Route 25) and St. Johnland Road (New York State Route 25A).

The border between Smithtown and the town of Huntington is partially defined by Bread and Cheese Hollow Road (Suffolk County Road 4), so named after Bread and Cheese hollow, which according to legend is where Smith stopped on his ride to have a lunch of bread and cheese. The road is reputed to follow part of his original ride. The border between Smithtown and Huntington was also the site of Fort Salonga, a British fort that was the site of a battle of the American Revolution during 1781.

The Smithtown hamlet of Nesconset was the home of Spaceplex, an indoor amusement park and arcade that was falsely accused of being the abduction site in the Katie Beers kidnapping case in 1992.

Geography Smithtown is bounded by Long Island Sound to the north, Islip to the south, Brookhaven to the east, and Huntington to the west.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 111.5 square miles (289 km²), of which 53.8 square miles (139 km²) is land and 57.7 square miles (149 km²) (51.75%) is water.

Villages (incorporated) • Head of the Harbor • Nissequogue • Village of the Branch • Village of the Landing (former; dissolved 1939)

Hamlets (unincorporated) • Commack (in part, with the Town of Huntington) • Fort Salonga (in part, with the Town of Huntington) • Hauppauge (in part, with the Town of Islip) • Kings Park • Lake Ronkonkoma (in part with the Town of Brookhaven and Town of Islip) • Nesconset • Smithtown • St. James

Other communities • North Smithtown • San Remo • Smithtown Pines

State parks • Caleb Smith State Park Preserve, a state park south-west of Smithtown village • Sunken Meadow State Park • Nissequogue River State Park • Blydenburgh Park Historic District.

Media Smithtown broadcasts its board meetings on SGTV, the Town of Smithtown's public service television station; Optimum channel 18 or Verizon Fios channel 27. The Times of Smithtown newspaper carries community-based articles.

Culture The Smithtown Performing Arts Center is a theater at 2 East Main Street. The historic building has not been significantly altered since it was built in 1933. It operated as a movie theater from 1933 to November 2001, and was renovated and restored to accommodate live performances in 2002. In 2022 the building was purchased by the nonprofit Smithtown Performing Arts Council, which programs a variety of live entertainment and community events including musicals, plays, music, comedy, educational classes and summer camps.

Emergency services Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services are provided by the seven Volunteer Fire Departments, and two Volunteer Ambulance Corps that cover parts of the Township. The Smithtown, Kings Park, Saint James, Nesconset, and Nissequogue Fire Departments provide both Fire Protection, as well as Emergency Medical Services to their districts. The Commack Fire Department and Commack Volunteer Ambulance Corps provide coverage for the Commack hamlet, which is divided between the Town of Smithtown, and the Town of Huntington. The Hauppauge Volunteer Fire Department and Central Islip-Hauppauge Volunteer Ambulance Corps provide coverage to the Hauppauge hamlet, which is divided between the Town of Smithtown, and the Town of Islip.

Smithtown is policed by the 4th Precinct of the Suffolk County Police Department. The Suffolk County Police are the primary law enforcement agency in Smithtown. They are responsible for responding to all 911 emergency calls. The Smithtown Department of Public Safety is an agency with limited powers. The Park Ranger Division is made up peace officers as defined in the Criminal Procedural Law of the state of New York. Their enforcement powers are limited to Smithtown town property. The Department of Public Safety also has a Harbor Master division and Fire Marshall division.

Emergency medical care can be found at St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center, located in Smithtown, as well as the nearby Stony Brook University Hospital, located in Stony Brook, in the neighboring Town of Brookhaven.

Railroad lines The Town of Smithtown is also home to the Kings Park, Smithtown, and Saint James stations of the Long Island Rail Road's Port Jefferson Branch.

Bus service The Town of Smithtown is served entirely by Suffolk County Transit bus routes.

Transport: Road • Interstate 495 is the Long Island Expressway, and the sole interstate highway in the Town of Smithtown although only in the south-west corner of the town between Exit 52 in Commack and east of Exit 53 in Brentwood. • Northern State Parkway was the sole west-east limited-access highway in the Town of Smithtown until the construction of the Long Island Expressway. It has interchanges from Exit 43 in Commack on the Huntington-Smithtown Town Line to Veterans Memorial Highway in Hauppauge. Extensions further east were proposed at one time. • Sagtikos State Parkway is the south-north parkway that enters the Town of Smithtown from Brentwood at the interchange with the Long Island Expressway, and terminates at the Northern State Parkway (Exit SM1) in Commack, where it becomes the Sunken Meadow State Parkway. • Sunken Meadow State Parkway is the dominant south-north parkway within the western Town of Smithtown. It begins at Northern State Parkway as a continuation of Sagtikos State Parkway in Commack, winding north-east, until it reaches Sunken Meadow State Park immediately after the interchange with NY 25A. • New York State Route 25A, the northernmost west-east state highway on Long Island including the Town of Smithtown. It enters the town from Bread and Cheese Hollow Road in Fort Salonga, winding through the hills of Fort Salonga through Kings Park where it becomes Main Street, then makes a sharp turn to the south onto Saint Johnland Road before passing the Smithtown Bull where it overlaps NY 25 and becomes Main Street. In the Village of the Branch, NY 25A leaves the overlap across from NY 111 where it runs along North Country Road as it heads north-east through Saint James and Head of the Harbor before crossing the Smithtown-Brookhaven Town Line west of Stony Brook. • New York State Route 25 runs west to east along Jericho Turnpike from Suffolk CR 4 at the Huntington-Smithtown Town Line through Main Street at the Smithtown Bull where it overlaps with NY 25A until separating with that route again at NY 111 in the Village of the Branch. East of there it runs along Main Street, then Middle Country Road through the Smithtown-Brookhaven Town Line in the Village of Lake Grove. • County Route 16, includes Terry Road from the eastern border of the Village of the Branch to north-eastern Hauppauge, and Smithtown Boulevard from north-eastern Hauppauge through Nesconset to the northern shores of Lake Ronkonkoma. • County Route 67; the remaining drivable portion of the Long Island Motor Parkway • New York State Route 111 • New York State Route 347 • New York State Route 454.

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Smithtown has a population of over 116,296 people. Smithtown also forms one of the centres of the wider Suffolk County which has a population of over 1,525,920 people.

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Antipodal to Smithtown is: 106.8,-40.85

Locations Near: Smithtown -73.2,40.85

🇺🇸 Happauge -73.204,40.825 d: 2.8  

🇺🇸 Brentwood -73.233,40.767 d: 9.7  

🇺🇸 Islip -73.183,40.75 d: 11.2  

🇺🇸 Huntington -73.35,40.85 d: 12.6  

🇺🇸 Babylon -73.326,40.696 d: 20.2  

🇺🇸 Melville -73.406,40.797 d: 18.3  

🇺🇸 Brookhaven -72.933,40.817 d: 22.7  

🇺🇸 Norwalk -73.417,41.083 d: 31.7  

🇺🇸 Oyster Bay -73.515,40.791 d: 27.3  

🇺🇸 Fairfield -73.267,41.167 d: 35.7  

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🇦🇺 Mandurah 115.721,-32.529 d: 18796.3  

🇦🇺 Rockingham 115.717,-32.267 d: 18773.5  

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🇦🇺 Vincent 115.834,-31.936 d: 18737.4  

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🇦🇺 Wanneroo 115.803,-31.747 d: 18722.2  

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