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Jamesport, New York

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Riverhead town. It lies in ZIP code area 11901. It stands on East Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mattituck quadrangle. 1,609 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Jamesport within Suffolk County

Then and now

1903 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Jamesport, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Jamesport, surveyed 1903

On record in Jamesport

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

Population over time

2 figures

Jamesport fell from 1,710 to 1,609 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
20101,710
20201,609-101 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 29 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

299 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 299 fires within 5 miles of Jamesport between 2000 and 2020, burning about 139 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 33 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/undetermined201
Arson/incendiarism33
Natural18
Smoking13
Equipment and vehicle use13
Recreation and ceremony12
Debris and open burning7
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 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 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jamesport in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2010: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 2008Thunderstorm WindJamesport$20,000Numerous trees were reported down from Jamesport to Mattituck, including a 30 foot wide swath of trees near the North Fork Preserve, sending a tree limb through a roof in Northville, and a 100 foot pine snapping in half.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindJamesport$7,500Multiple trees were reported down in the town of Jamestown.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindJamesport$1,000Wires were reported down on Manor Lane just west of Jamesport.

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
South Jamesport0.9 miles29
Laurel1.7 miles29
Riverhaven Park2.3 miles29
Aquebogue2.4 miles28
Northville2.4 miles29
Southport3.3 miles29
Red Creek3.4 miles29
Flanders3.7 miles29

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 JamesportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3460398The 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 953924. 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.