Huntington Bay New York Map

About Huntington Bay, New York

Huntington Bay is a locality in Suffolk County, New York, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,446. The population density is 559.4 people per km². Huntington Bay is located at 40.8998°N, 73.4148°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Huntington Bay is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 11743.

Huntington Bay maintains a shoreline where the cool, saline breath of the Atlantic meets the quietude of a protected harbor. It lies 2.3 miles north-northeast of Huntington, NY (from Huntington, NY: bearing 14°T), and is situated 6.6 miles east-northeast of Oyster Bay. The landscape is defined by its immediate proximity to the water, where tides pull against the land with a rhythmic, inexorable precision that shapes the very edge of the INC VILLAGE OF HUNTINGTON Land. Beyond the immediate coast, the terrain rises into the subtle, glacial undulations of the North Shore, while Sand City Island sits as a solitary, low-slung sentinel just offshore. To the south, the topography shifts toward the subtle depression of Little Plains, and though the Appalachian Mountains remain a distant, hazy suggestion on the horizon, the local horizon is dominated by the shimmering expanse of Huntington Bay itself.

Maritime legacies linger in the architecture and the deliberate pace of life, reflecting a history rooted in seafaring trade and the cultivation of the surrounding land. While the economy has evolved from its early reliance on coastal harvests, the water remains the primary theater of daily existence, influencing everything from the maintenance of private moorings to the local stewardship of the environment. Residents often look toward the interior, where the stillness of Crystal Lake offers a freshwater contrast to the salt air, or follow the path of the land five miles inland toward Tiffany Creek. Even as modern transit connects Huntington Bay to the frantic machinery of the wider world, the local character remains defined by this intersection of water and earth, where the light at dusk turns the harbor into a plate of polished pewter.

About This Huntington Bay Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Huntington Bay, New York. Coordinates: 40.89982, -73.414842. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Huntington Bay includes the ZIP code (11743), telephone area code (516), county seat of Suffolk County (Riverhead), and school district assignment (Huntington Union Free School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.