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          "Hampton Bays was formerly known as Good Ground; the Southampton History Museum's own history blog, in an account of a Civil War soldier, describes him as being \"of Good Ground (Hampton Bays),\" confirming the earlier name without independently dating the change to the current one.[1]",
          "As an unincorporated hamlet, Hampton Bays has no government, school board or police force of its own; it is administered as part of the Town of Southampton.[2] Two of the Town's own government functions are, however, physically headquartered within Hampton Bays: the Southampton Town Police Department's headquarters is at 110 Old Riverhead Road, and the Town's Justice Court clerk's window and courthouse are at 32 Jackson Ave.[2][3]"
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          "New York State Route 24 (Hempstead Turnpike) is, per NYSDOT's own touring-route description, one of the roads that ends in Hampton Bays: the route runs \"east on Hempstead Turnpike to East Meadow, Levittown, Farmingdale, East Farmingdale (NY 110), (NY 495) Exit 71, Riverhead, Hampton Bays (CR 80)\" before terminating at County Road 80.[5]"
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          "Hampton Bays is subject to the Town of Southampton's own code of local laws (eCode360 client SO0286), which includes Chapter 287, \"Streets and Sidewalks\" (§287-1 to §287-32) — the chapter under which a prior-written-notice defense to claims over defective town roads and sidewalks would typically be codified.[4]"
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          "Policing across the entire Town of Southampton, including Hampton Bays, is provided by the Southampton Town Police Department, whose own site states: \"Since its founding on July 1, 1951, the Southampton Town Police Department has grown from just 9 officers to 113 sworn officers.\"[2] The department's headquarters building is in Hampton Bays, at 110 Old Riverhead Road.[2] All criminal, civil, traffic and parking matters arising anywhere in the Town of Southampton, not only Hampton Bays, are processed at the Southampton Town Justice Court, whose clerk's window is at 32 Jackson Ave. in Hampton Bays; the court's own site describes it as \"a multi-faceted Court, processing all criminal, civil, traffic, and parking summonses issued within the Town of Southampton,\" handling complaints from agencies including the Town Police, Suffolk County Police, the Suffolk County Sheriff, State Police, Bay Constables, Building and Zoning, Environmental Conservation, Fire Marshal and Park Rangers.[3] In 2026 the court's four elected town justices were Patrick J. Gunn, Gary J. Weber, Karen M. Sartain and Adam Grossman.[3]"
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        "title": "Alonzo Foster: A Civil War Hero from Good Ground",
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        "id": 4,
        "title": "Town of Southampton Code, Table of Contents",
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        "title": "Official Description of Highway Touring Routes, Bicycle Touring Routes, Scenic Byways, & Commemorative/Memorial Designations in New York State",
        "publisher": "New York State Department of Transportation, Office of Traffic Safety & Mobility",
        "url": "https://www.dot.ny.gov/divisions/operating/oom/transportation-systems/repository/2017%20tour-bk.pdf",
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        "title": "Official Description of Highway Touring Routes... (POW-MIA Memorial Highway designation)",
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        "title": "Stony Brook Southampton Hospital (home page)",
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    "fars": {
      "name": "National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2010–2024 national files",
      "url": "https://www.nhtsa.gov/file-downloads?p=nhtsa/downloads/FARS/",
      "retrieved": "2026-09-17",
      "preliminaryYears": [
        2024
      ],
      "note": "Crashes on public trafficways in which a person died within 30 days. No personal identifiers. Placed by reported coordinates into 2020 Census boundaries."
    },
    "nys": {
      "name": "New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, Motor Vehicle Crashes — Case Information: Four Year Window",
      "url": "https://data.ny.gov/Transportation/Motor-Vehicle-Crashes-Case-Information-Four-Year-W/e8ky-4vqe",
      "period": "2021–2024",
      "retrieved": "2026-09-17",
      "note": "Police-reported crashes coded to a town, city or village by the reporting agency. Hamlets are not coded; hamlet pages show the parent town."
    }
  }
}