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Holbrook, New York

33 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 11741. It lies near Long Island. The Survey maps it on the Patchogue quadrangle. 26,487 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 118 feet above sea level.

Holbrook 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 Holbrook, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Holbrook, surveyed 1902

Population over time

2 figures

Holbrook fell from 27,195 to 26,487 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
201027,195
202026,487-708 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 33 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

1,633 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,633 fires within 5 miles of Holbrook between 2000 and 2020, burning about 748 acres in total. 120 started naturally. 218 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/undetermined1166
Arson/incendiarism218
Natural120
Debris and open burning40
Smoking36
Equipment and vehicle use27
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Recreation and ceremony9
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWertheim National Wildlife RefugeNYWHR-FY20-WF-SAYVILLE 6
8 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 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

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holbrook in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2020Thunderstorm WindHolbrook$11,000Tree down on a house.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindHolbrook$2,500Numerous trees and wires, including an 8 to 10 inch diameter oak tree, were downed in Holbrook.
July 2025Flash FloodHolbrook-Law enforcement reports multiple roads closed throughout Holbrook 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
Holtsville1.8 miles33
Ronkonkoma1.8 miles33
Lakeland2.2 miles33
Farmingville2.9 miles33
Lake Ronkonkoma3.2 miles35
Centereach3.4 miles33
Lake Grove3.4 miles33
Patchogue Highlands3.4 miles33

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 HolbrookAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3459180The 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 952975. 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.