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Coram, New York

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Brookhaven town. It lies in ZIP code area 11727. The Survey maps it on the Patchogue quadrangle. 40,220 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 95 feet above sea level.

Coram 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 Coram, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Coram, surveyed 1902

On record in Coram

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

Coram grew from 39,113 to 40,220 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
201039,113
202040,220+1,107 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 33 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

1,801 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,801 fires within 5 miles of Coram between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,265 acres in total. 79 started naturally. 364 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/undetermined1235
Arson/incendiarism364
Natural79
Smoking44
Debris and open burning33
Equipment and vehicle use19
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Recreation and ceremony10
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
7 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Coram: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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
Brookhaven Aggregates PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Brookhaven Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Roanoke Mabro Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Roanoke Marboro Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coram in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2024Flash FloodCoram-Fire department being dispatched to a stranded motorist to perform a water rescue on Daryl Drive at Mooney Pond Road.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindCoram-A large tree branch was reported down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCoram-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
Gordon Heights1.8 miles20
Selden1.8 miles33
Farmingville3.0 miles33
Medford3.5 miles33
Middle Island3.6 miles19
Siegfield Park3.8 miles20
Holtsville4.3 miles33
Terryville4.4 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 CoramAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3459236The 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 947423. 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.

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.