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East Moriches, New York

18 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 11940. It stands on Heils Creek. The Survey maps it on the Moriches quadrangle. 5,946 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 30 feet above sea level.

East Moriches within Suffolk County

Then and now

1904 to 1984

The 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.

Topographic sheet of East Moriches, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of East Moriches, surveyed 1904

Population over time

2 figures

East Moriches grew from 5,249 to 5,946 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
20105,249
20205,946+697 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

453 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 453 fires within 5 miles of East Moriches between 2000 and 2020, burning about 267 acres in total. 36 started naturally. 78 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/undetermined295
Arson/incendiarism78
Natural36
Equipment and vehicle use22
Smoking8
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1
Debris and open burning1

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
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
30 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Moriches in 1 storm report in 2014: 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 2014Flash FloodEast Moriches-Sunrise Highway was closed at Railroad Ave. in Manorville due to flooding.

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
Center Moriches1.6 miles18
Bellview Beach2.0 miles18
Eastport2.1 miles27
Greenwood Village2.6 miles18
Remsenburg2.8 miles27
Speonk3.1 miles27
West Hampton Dunes3.1 miles27
Moriches3.2 miles18

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 East MorichesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3462105The 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 970099. 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.