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Lake Grove, 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 11755. The Survey maps it on the Patchogue quadrangle. 11,072 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 118 feet above sea level.

Lake Grove 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 Lake Grove, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Lake Grove, surveyed 1902

On record in Lake Grove

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Lake Grove fell from 11,163 to 11,072 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
201011,163
202011,072-91 (-1%)

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

1,156 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,156 fires within 5 miles of Lake Grove between 2000 and 2020, burning about 457 acres in total. 112 started naturally. 139 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/undetermined791
Arson/incendiarism139
Natural112
Smoking39
Debris and open burning29
Equipment and vehicle use16
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Recreation and ceremony9
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
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 2007Missing 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 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 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 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 Lake Grove: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal. 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
Port Jefferson Station B PlantTitanium, MetalPlant
Kings Park PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Smithtown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Smithtown PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this place

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Grove in 9 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 8 flash flood, 1 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
September 2012Thunderstorm WindLake Grove$2,000A tree was reported downed on wires at Browns Road and Shenandoah Boulevard.
August 2024Flash FloodLake Grove-Water up to hood of car stuck in flood waters on Middle Country Road at Hobson Ave. Occupants are out of the vehicle.
August 2024Flash FloodLake Grove-Fire department dispatched to a stranded motorist on Browns Road at Monroe Street.
August 2024Flash FloodLake Grove-Water rescue on Hobson Ave due to flooding.
August 2024Flash FloodLake Grove-Car stuck in flood waters with occupant on roof of car on Middle Country Road at White Ave. Fire department responding.
August 2021Flash FloodLake Grove-The Fire Department was rescuing people from vehicles as a result of flooding on Route 25 just west of Route 347 in Saint James.
August 2014Flash FloodLake Grove-The local fire department deployed boats to rescue trapped vehicle occupants in Nesconset at the intersection of Nichols Rd. and Roy Dr.
August 2014Flash FloodLake Grove-Browns Rd. in Nesconset was closed with two cars stuck in flood waters.
October 2006Flash FloodLake Grove-no account filed

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
Centereach0.9 miles33
Lake Ronkonkoma1.5 miles35
Nesconset2.1 miles35
East Hauppauge2.3 miles35
Ronkonkoma2.6 miles33
Saint James2.9 miles33
Lakeland3.1 miles33
Holbrook3.4 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 Lake GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1442569The 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 954916. 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.