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Matinecock, New York

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Oyster Bay town. It lies in ZIP code area 11560. It stands on Beaver Brook. The Survey maps it on the Bayville quadrangle. 847 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 89 feet above sea level.

Matinecock within Nassau County

Then and now

1897 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Matinecock, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Matinecock, surveyed 1897

On record in Matinecock

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 3 records

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

Population over time

2 figures

Matinecock grew from 810 to 847 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
2010810
2020847+37 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 34 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

247 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 247 fires within 5 miles of Matinecock between 1994 and 2020, burning about 109 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 25 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/undetermined110
Smoking45
Arson/incendiarism25
Power generation/transmission/distribution20
Natural18
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor5

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 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2002Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution2.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2003Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Matinecock: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten. 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
L I Tungsten Corp/ Glen Cove, N.Y.TungstenUnknown

Every working recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this place

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Matinecock in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2021: 2 flash flood, 2 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
July 2019Thunderstorm WindMatinecock$4,000Trees and wires down on Duck Pond Road.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindMatinecock$3,000Oyster Bay Branch Long Island Railroad Service was suspended between Locust Valley and Oyster Bay due to downed trees across the tracks east of Locust Valley.
July 2021Flash FloodMatinecock-Viola Drive in Glen Cove was flooded with water several feet deep.
September 2012Flash FloodMatinecock-All lanes were blocked with vehicles stranded in high water on Elm Ave. due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Nassau 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
Locust Valley1.1 miles34
Mill Neck1.4 miles34
Lattingtown1.9 miles34
Oyster Bay2.5 miles35
Bayville2.5 miles34
Upper Brookville2.7 miles35
East Norwich3.0 miles35
Glen Cove3.2 miles34

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 MatinecockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3452048The 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 956671. 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.