Brookhaven, 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 11719. It stands on Little Neck Run. The Survey maps it on the Bellport quadrangle. 3,330 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 18 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1904 to 1984The 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.


On record in Brookhaven
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 5 records
Caroline Church and Cemeterylisted 1991
Setauket Presbyterian Church and Burial Groundlisted 1996
Smith Estatelisted 1981
St. James Chapellisted 2000- ELVIRA (sloop)listed 2012
Population over time
2 figuresBrookhaven fell from 3,451 to 3,330 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,451 | |
| 2020 | 3,330 | -121 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1904 USGS Moriches quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Bellport quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Bellport quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Bellport quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Long Island East quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
1,376 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,376 fires within 5 miles of Brookhaven between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,196 acres in total. 41 started naturally. 404 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/undetermined | 769 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 404 |
| Smoking | 61 |
| Natural | 41 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 40 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 21 |
| Debris and open burning | 21 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Fireworks | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 9 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 7 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 7 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 7 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brookhaven in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookhaven | - | Mesonet site in Brookhaven NY measured a 53 knot wind gust. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookhaven | - | A 59 mph wind gust was reported. |
| September 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookhaven | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookhaven | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Bellport | 1.5 miles | 20 | |
| South Haven | 1.7 miles | 20 | |
| Bellport | 2.0 miles | 20 | |
| Hagerman | 2.6 miles | 20 | |
| Shirley | 3.0 miles | 18 | |
| Mastic Beach | 3.5 miles | 18 | |
| Yaphank | 4.0 miles | 20 | |
| Mastic | 4.2 miles | 18 |
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 Brookhaven | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4974628 | The 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 944835. 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.










