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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.

Dering Harbor within Suffolk County

Then and now

1904 to 1983

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Dering Harbor, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Dering Harbor, surveyed 1904

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.

Population over time

2 figures

Dering 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.

YearPeople Change
201011
202050+39 (+355%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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

92 since 2000

Regional 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/undetermined41
Natural15
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking6
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 September 2010Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Shelter Island Heights0.8 miles22
Greenport1.0 miles22
Greenport Homes1.4 miles22
Shelter Island1.8 miles22
Stirling1.8 miles22
Arshamonaque2.3 miles22
East Marion2.4 miles22
Westmoreland2.7 miles22

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 HarborAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3452608The 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.