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Bayport, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Islip town. It lies in ZIP code area 11705. It stands on Homans Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sayville quadrangle. 8,609 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Bayport within Suffolk County

Then and now

1902 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bayport, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Bayport, surveyed 1902

On record in Bayport

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Bayport fell from 8,896 to 8,609 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20108,896
20208,609-287 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 29 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

1,063 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,063 fires within 5 miles of Bayport between 1993 and 2020, burning about 528 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 116 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined824
Arson/incendiarism116
Natural34
Equipment and vehicle use27
Smoking22
Debris and open burning14
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Recreation and ceremony11
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWertheim National Wildlife RefugeNYWHR-FY20-WF-SAYVILLE 6
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this place

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bayport in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2012: 1 rip current, 1 hail. The reports record 1 death. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2002Rip CurrentBayport1 killedno account filed
July 2012HailBayport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Suffolk County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Blue Point0.9 miles29
Sayville Heights1.3 miles29
Sayville1.7 miles29
West Sayville2.6 miles29
Patchogue2.7 miles33
Patchogue Highlands3.3 miles33
East Patchogue3.5 miles20
North Patchogue4.0 miles33

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BayportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3460582The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 943209. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.