Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1650
Land area (2000): 13.978718 sq. miles (36.204713 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.113914 sq. miles (0.295037 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 14.092632 sq. miles (36.499750 sq. km)
FIPS code: 83426
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 40.835277 N, 72.929159 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 11980
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Yaphank
Wikipedia
Yaphank is a station in the hamlet of Yaphank, New York on the Main Line ( Greenport Branch) of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located on Park Street near Suffolk County Road 21 (Yaphank Avenue). It is also accessible from streets in and around Suffolk County. The distance between Yaphank and the next station, Riverhead, is the longest distance between stations in the LIRR at . Government Buildings on the north side of the tracks at the bottom of the Yaphank Avenue overpass.
The two sites that are closest to the station are the Suffolk County Police Department auto mechanics shop (a.k.a. "Vector Center") as well as a Georgia-Pacific railroad lumber yard. The historic Suffolk County Almshouse Barn and the former Suffolk County Sanitorium can be found northwest of the station, as well as the Yaphank Avenue bridge over the tracks.