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Bellport, New York

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Brookhaven town. It lies in ZIP code area 11713. It stands on Motts Brook. The Survey maps it on the Bellport quadrangle. 2,203 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 26 feet above sea level.

Bellport within Suffolk County

Then and now

1904 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bellport, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Bellport, surveyed 1904

On record in Bellport

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Bellport grew from 2,084 to 2,203 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
20102,084
20202,203+119 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

877 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 877 fires within 5 miles of Bellport between 1992 and 2020, burning about 567 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 187 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/undetermined552
Arson/incendiarism187
Smoking44
Natural28
Equipment and vehicle use26
Debris and open burning14
Recreation and ceremony10
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Fireworks7

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 2012Missing 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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2014Missing 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
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this place

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bellport in 1 storm report in 2006: 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2006LightningBellport1 hurtA 34-year-old man was struck by lightning while erecting a fence at Frank P. Long Intermediate School.

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
North Bellport1.2 miles20
Hagerman1.6 miles20
Brookhaven2.0 miles20
East Patchogue3.1 miles20
South Haven3.7 miles20
Patchogue4.1 miles33
North Patchogue4.2 miles33
Mastic Beach4.7 miles18

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 BellportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2894994The 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 943626. 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.