Greenport, New York
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Southold town. It lies in ZIP code area 11944. It stands on Chase Creek. The Survey maps it on the Greenport quadrangle. 2,583 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 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 Greenport
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 4 records
Charles and Anna Bates Houselisted 2017
Congregation Tifereth Israel Synagoguelisted 2006
Greenport Railroad Stationlisted 1989
Greenport Village Historic Districtlisted 1984
Population over time
2 figuresGreenport grew from 2,197 to 2,583 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 | 2,197 | |
| 2020 | 2,583 | +386 (+18%) |
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
96 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Greenport between 2000 and 2020, burning about 48 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 | 45 |
| Natural | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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:
Storms near this place
6 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenport in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenport | $1,000 | Tree reported down and blocking Willow Drive. |
| August 2018 | Flash Flood | Greenport | - | Several roads were closed due to flooding in Greenport including the intersection of Front Street and First Street. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenport | - | A wind gust of 68 MPH was measured at a mesonet location in Greenport. |
| September 2015 | Flash Flood | Greenport | - | The intersection of Front Street and First Street in Greenport was impassable. |
| June 2011 | Flash Flood | Greenport | - | The intersection of South St. and 1st St. in Greenport was closed due to flooding. |
| February 1998 | Lightning | Greenport | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenport Homes | 0.7 miles | 22 | |
| Stirling | 0.9 miles | 22 | |
| Dering Harbor | 1.0 miles | 22 | |
| Shelter Island Heights | 1.4 miles | 22 | |
| Arshamonaque | 1.9 miles | 22 | |
| East Marion | 2.0 miles | 22 | |
| Shelter Island | 2.7 miles | 22 | |
| Westmoreland | 3.2 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 Greenport | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q94652 | 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 951759. 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.








