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East Shoreham, New York

19 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 11786. It stands on Wading River. The Survey maps it on the Middle Island quadrangle. 6,841 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 121 feet above sea level.

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

On record in East Shoreham

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 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

East Shoreham grew from 6,666 to 6,841 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
20106,666
20206,841+175 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

389 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 389 fires within 5 miles of East Shoreham between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,515 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 98 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/undetermined232
Arson/incendiarism98
Natural20
Smoking20
Debris and open burning7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony4

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 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2015Arson/incendiarism6.6 acresNew York Forest RangersNEVILLE FIRE
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersSAMUEL'S FIRE
29 September 2000Missing 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

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
Shoreham1.7 miles19
Wading River2.0 miles17
Rocky Point2.5 miles19
Ridge3.6 miles19
Wildwood3.8 miles17
Sound Beach4.7 miles19
Middle Island5.2 miles19
Upton5.2 miles20

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 ShorehamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3461394The 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 1867403. 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.