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East Setauket, New York

32 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 11733. The Survey maps it on the Port Jefferson quadrangle. 3,986 people lived here at the 2020 count.

East Setauket 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 East Setauket, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of East Setauket, surveyed 1902

On record in East Setauket

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

East Setauket fell from 15,477 to 3,986 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
201015,477
20203,986-11,491 (-74%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 32 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

695 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 695 fires within 5 miles of East Setauket between 2000 and 2020, burning about 261 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 45 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/undetermined561
Arson/incendiarism45
Natural40
Equipment and vehicle use17
Smoking14
Debris and open burning7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony3
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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2007Missing 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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

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 East Setauket: 1 past producer, 1 plant, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Titanium. 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
Lawrence Aviation Industries PlantTitaniumUnknown
Port Jefferson Station B PlantTitanium, MetalPlant
Suffolk Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Suffolk Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this place

10 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Setauket in 10 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindEast Setauket$3,000Large limb and wires down on the intersection of Old Field Road and Conscience Road in Setauket NY.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindEast Setauket$3,000Trees were reported down along Lower Sheep Pasture Road in Stony Brook.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindEast Setauket$2,000Downed wires from thunderstorm gust.
August 2024Flash FloodEast Setauket-Water rescue on Sheep Pasture Road at Locust Manor Court.
August 2024Flash FloodEast Setauket-Fire department dispatched to stranded motorist to perform a water rescue on N Belle Meade Road.
June 2009HailEast Setauket-Ping-Pong ball size hail was reported in Setauket-East Setauket.
June 2009HailEast Setauket-Quarter size hail was reported in Setauket-East Setauket.
August 2008HailEast Setauket-Penny size hail was reported.
August 2008HailEast Setauket-Quarter size hail was reported.
August 2008HailEast Setauket-Half dollar size hail was reported covering the ground at Saint Georges Golf Course in East Setauket.

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
Setauket0.8 miles32
Poquott1.3 miles32
Old Field1.8 miles33
South Setauket1.9 miles32
Port Jefferson2.0 miles32
Stony Brook2.2 miles33
Belle Terre2.4 miles32
Terryville3.1 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.

Wikidata item Q996014The 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 949242. 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.