Vámosatya is a village in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.
The settlement on the east-west trade route was allowed to charge customs for the passage.
It was mentioned in written sources as early as the 13th century, and in 1333 it was already listed as a populated place in the register of papal tithes.
The castle was recaptured by the Büdys in 1563, but in 1564, when István Báthory was under siege by the Transylvanian prince, it was handed over to him for free retreat.
On 9 December 1874, Sándor Csanády, the landowner, wrote a 710-acre inner paternal plot and 6 acres of land in Hetény in the name of "Lajos Kossuth, a Turin resident", so that he could be elected.