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Centre Island, New York

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Oyster Bay town. It lies in ZIP code area 11771. It lies near Pine Island (historical). The Survey maps it on the Bayville quadrangle. 407 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 33 feet above sea level.

Centre Island within Nassau County

Then and now

1897 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Centre Island, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Centre Island, surveyed 1897

On record in Centre Island

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Centre Island fell from 410 to 407 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
2010410
2020407-3 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 34 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

139 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Centre Island between 1992 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 24 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/undetermined61
Arson/incendiarism24
Natural20
Smoking8
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
5 September 2010Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
23 September 2019Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
21 September 2010Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
17 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLong Island National Wildlife Refuge ComplexTARGRKBCH
14 September 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Centre Island: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
West Hills PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Nassau 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
Cove Neck1.5 miles34
Mill Neck2.1 miles34
Oyster Bay Cove2.2 miles35
Bayville2.3 miles34
Oyster Bay2.6 miles35
Matinecock3.5 miles34
East Norwich3.9 miles35
Laurel Hollow4.1 miles32

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 Centre IslandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3448926The 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 946329. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.