Smithtown is a

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Suffolk County, New York Suffolk County () is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of New York. It is mainly located on the eastern end of Long Island, but also includes several smaller islands. According to the 2020 United States census, the county's populat ...

on the North Shore of

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. It is part of the New York metropolitan area. The population was 116,296 at the 2020 Census. The

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

History

Smithtown, originally known as "Smithfield", was first settled circa 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 (

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), 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 (

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). 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

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during 1781. The Smithtown hamlet of Nesconset was the home of Spaceplex, an indoor

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and arcade that was falsely accused of being the abduction site in the Katie Beers kidnapping case in 1992.

Geography

The Town of Smithtown is located at 40° 52' 13" North, 73° 13' 3" West (40.862786, −73.215175). According to the

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, the town has a total area of 111.4 square miles (288.5 km²), of which 53.6 square miles (138.8 km²) is land and 57.8 square miles (149.7 km²) (51.89%) is water.

Demographics

As of the

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of 2000, there were 115,715 people, 38,487 households, and 31,482 families residing in the town. The

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was 2,159.9 people per square mile (833.9/km²). There were 39,357 housing units at an average density of 734.6 per square mile (283.6/km²). The racial makeup of the town was: * 114,817 or 99.2% mono-racial * 110,546 or 95.5%

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* 748 or 0.65%

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, * 78 or 0.01% Native American * 1,763 or 1.7% Asian * 22 or less than 0.01%

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* 660 or 0.6% from other races * 898 or 0.8% from two or more races. * 3,855 or 3.3%

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or Latino There were 38,487 households, out of which 38.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 71.6% were

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living together, 7.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 18.2% were non-families. 15.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.95 and the average family size was 3.28. In the town, the population was spread out, with 26.0% under the age of 18, 5.4% from 18 to 24, 30.4% from 25 to 44, 24.8% from 45 to 64, and 13.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 94.6 males. For every 1000 females age 18 and over, there were 911.2 males. According to a 2007 estimate, the median income for a household in the town was $100,165, and the median income for a family was $110,776. Males had a median income of $61,348 versus $38,208 for females. The

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for the town was $31,401. About 2.1% of families and 3.0% of the population were below the

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, including 2.9% of those under age 18 and 4.7% of those age 65 or over. Ancestries: Italian (35.3%), Irish (26.0%), German (18.7%), Polish (6.9%), English (5.0%), Russian (4.1%).

Government and politics

The present town hall and seat of the town was built in 1912 on Main Street in Smithtown. In 2015 the town hall was dedicated and renamed after former Supervisor Patrick R. Vecchio. Smithtown is led by a Town Supervisor and a four-member Town Council, elected town-wide with each serving four year terms. Elections are held in odd-numbered years, with two of the councilmembers being up for re-election each year. The current Supervisor is Edward Wehrheim who has been Town Supervisor since 2018. His predecessor, Patrick Vecchio was in office for forty years, the longest elected town supervisor in the history of the United States. Elected as a Democrat during a special election, Vecchio switched parties in 1993 in an attempt to run for County Executive. Although defeated in the primary by Robert Gaffney, Vecchio remained a Republican until his death in 2019. He is the longest serving town supervisor in all of New York State. Vecchio ran in 2013 against former Councilman Robert Creighton, of the Conservative Party. Supervisor Vecchio won the Republican Primary against Councilman Creighton and then later defeated the Councilman in the General Election 45-30%. The Democratic candidate, Steven Snair received 25% of the vote. Councilman Creighton was later ousted in 2015 by Lisa Inzerillo. In the 2017 Republican primary, then-Councilman Ed Wehrheim received about forty votes more than Vecchio. The race was too close to call and a recount was demanded by Vecchio. Following the recount a week later, Wehrheim was declared the winner, nearly doubling his lead. Vecchio conceded the race the same day saying "“All good things come to an end." On November 7, 2017, Ed Wehrheim defeated William Holst in the election for the town's next supervisor. Wehrheim succeeded Vecchio on January 1, 2018. On January 10, 2018, Thomas Lohmann was appointed to the seat vacated by Wehrheim's election. The Town of Smithtown has always been dominated by Republicans at all levels of government. This one-party domination has often led to infighting between factions of the Republican Party in Smithtown with the most recent between Supervisor Vecchio and Smithtown Republican Party Chairman William Ellis. In recent times the Republican party has dominated the Town Board; the last Democratic Town Supervisor being Mr. Vecchio. The most Republican areas for Smithtown are its three incorporated villages, Nissequogue, Head of the Harbor, and the Branch, along with the hamlets of Smithtown and Kings Park. The weakest areas for the Republican party in Smithtown is the edges of the Town in the hamlets of Commack and Hauppauge. In 2016, President

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defeated

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by 28 points, the highest performing town for him on all of Long Island. Democratic County Executive Steve Bellone has won the town, in two of his three runs for that office. In addition to presidential politics, the Town of Smithtown is also the power bases of many State and County elected officials. The former New York State Senate Majority Leader

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had the bulk of his district located in Smithtown. Current Republican Comptroller John M. Kennedy, Jr., along with his wife, Suffolk County Legislator Leslie Kennedy both reside in Nesconset. Former Supervisor Vecchio died on April 6, 2019 at the age of 88.

Communities and locations

Villages (incorporated)

* Head of the Harbor *

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* Village of the Branch * Village of the Landing (former; dissolved 1939)

Hamlets (unincorporated)

Commack Commack ( ) is a hamlet and census designated place (CDP) that roughly corresponds to the hamlet by the same name in the towns of Huntington and Smithtown in Suffolk County, on Long Island, in New York. The CDP's population was 36,124 at the 20 ...

''(in part, with the Town of Huntington)'' * Fort Salonga ''(in part, with the Town of Huntington)'' *

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''(in part, with the Town of Islip)'' * Kings Park *

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''(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

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southwest of Smithtown village *

Sunken Meadow State Park Sunken Meadow State Park, also known as Governor Alfred E. Smith State Park, is a state park located in the Town of Smithtown in Suffolk County, New York on the north shore of Long Island. The park, accessible via the Sunken Meadow State Parkway ...

Nissequogue River State Park Nissequogue River State Park is a state park located on the banks and bluffs of the Nissequogue River in Kings Park, New York. The park was opened in 2000, and established on the waterfront portion of the former Kings Park Psychiatric Center. ...

Blydenburgh Park Historic District Blydenburgh Park Historic District is a national historic district located at Smithtown in Suffolk County, New York. The district includes eight contributing buildings and one contributing structure. There are two groups of historic buildin ...

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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.

Emergency services

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and

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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

hamlet, which is divided between the Town of Smithtown, and the Town of Huntington. Th
Hauppauge Volunteer Fire Department
and Central Islip-Hauppauge Volunteer Ambulance Corps provide coverage to the

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.NYS CPL Article 2 Section 2.10(9) 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

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, located in Stony Brook, in the neighboring Town of Brookhaven.

Transportation

Railroad lines

The Town of Smithtown is also home to the Kings Park, Smithtown, and

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stations of the

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Bus service

The Town of Smithtown is served entirely by

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bus routes.

Major roads

* Interstate 495 is the Long Island Expressway, and the sole interstate highway in the Town of Smithtown although only in the southwest corner of the town between Exit 52 in Commack and east of Exit 53 in Brentwood. * Northern Pkwy Shield

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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

on the Huntington-Smithtown Town Line to Veterans Memorial Highway in

. Extensions further east were proposed at one time. * Sagtikos Pkwy Shield

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 Pkwy Shield

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 northeast, until it reaches

immediately after the interchange with NY 25A. * NY-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 northeast through Saint James and Head of the Harbor before crossing the Smithtown-Brookhaven Town Line west of Stony Brook. * NY-25

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. * Suffolk County 16

County Route 16, includes Terry Road from the eastern border of the Village of the Branch to northeastern Hauppauge, and Smithtown Boulevard from northeastern Hauppauge through Nesconset to the northern shores of Lake Ronkonkoma. * Suffolk County 67

County Route 67; the remaining drivable portion of the

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New York State Route 111 * NY-347

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Education

Smithtown Central School District is home of seven elementary schools, three middle schools, and two high schools. The Town of Smithtown is also home to the Kings Park Central School District, a portion of the Commack Union-Free School District (shared with the Town of Huntington), a portion of the Hauppauge School District (shared with the Town of Islip) and a portion of the Sachem Central School District (shared with the Town of Brookhaven).

Elementary schools

* Accompsett Elementary School * Branch Brook Elementary School (Closed) * Dogwood Elementary School * Mills Pond Elementary School * Mt. Pleasant Elementary School * Nesconset Elementary School (Closed) * Smithtown Elementary School * St. James Elementary School * Tackan Elementary School

Middle schools

* Accompsett Middle School (formerly Smithtown High School Freshman Campus 1992-2005) * Great Hollow Middle School * Nessaquake Middle school

Smithtown High School

* Eastern Campus (formerly Smithtown Central High School, 1960s-1973; formerly Smithtown High School East, 1973–1992; formerly Smithtown Middle School, 1992–2005) - located in St. James ** The High School's Eastern Campus is composed of graduates of Nesaquake Middle School and those graduates of Great Hollow Middle School that reside in the Tackan and Nesconset Elementary area. * Western Campus (formerly Smithtown High School West, 1973–1992; formerly Smithtown High School 10-12 Building, 1992–2005)- located in south of the Kings Park Hamlet and west of the Smithtown Bull ** The High School's Western Campus is composed of graduates of Accompsett Middle School and those graduates of Great Hollow Middle School that reside in the Mt. Pleasant and Branch Brook Elementary area.

Private schools

* Smithtown Christian School (pre-school to twelfth grade)

Former schools (No longer used as K-12 Facilities)

* New York Avenue Junior High School- (now the Joseph M. Barton/New York Avenue Building) Currently the central office and headquarters of Smithown Central School District * Smithtown Branch High School- Smithtown High School before the opening of Smithtown Central High School in the 1960s

References

External links

Smithtown Central School District Website

Town of Smithtown, NY

Courtesy Maggiblanck.com
Kings Park Heritage Museum

Kings Park Chamber of Commerce

Smithtown Government Television
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