Dering Harbor, New York
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Shelter Island town. It stands on Chase Creek. The Survey maps it on the Greenport quadrangle. 50 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1904 to 1983The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Dering Harbor
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 4 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Shelter Island Heights Historic Districtlisted 1993 · 0.8 miles away
Union Chapellisted 1984 · 0.9 miles away
Sylvester Manorlisted 2015 · 0.9 miles away
Greenport Railroad Stationlisted 1989 · 1.0 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresDering Harbor grew from 11 to 50 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 | 11 | |
| 2020 | 50 | +39 (+355%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 22 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 Shelter Island quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1947 USGS Greenport quadrangle1:24000
- 1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Greenport quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS New Haven quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
92 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Dering Harbor between 2000 and 2020, burning about 51 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 5 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 | 41 |
| Natural | 15 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 5 September 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 2 September 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 2 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 17 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 15 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 14 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 10 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shelter Island Heights | 0.8 miles | 22 | |
| Greenport | 1.0 miles | 22 | |
| Greenport Homes | 1.4 miles | 22 | |
| Shelter Island | 1.8 miles | 22 | |
| Stirling | 1.8 miles | 22 | |
| Arshamonaque | 2.3 miles | 22 | |
| East Marion | 2.4 miles | 22 | |
| Westmoreland | 2.7 miles | 22 |
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 Dering Harbor | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3452608 | 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 948345. 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.








