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Middle Island, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Brookhaven town. It lies in ZIP code area 11953. The Survey maps it on the Middle Island quadrangle. 10,546 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 82 feet above sea level.

Middle Island within Suffolk County

Then and now

1904 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Middle Island, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Middle Island, surveyed 1904

On record in Middle Island

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

Middle Island grew from 10,483 to 10,546 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
201010,483
202010,546+63 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

1,222 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,222 fires within 5 miles of Middle Island between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,180 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 356 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/undetermined732
Arson/incendiarism356
Smoking41
Natural38
Debris and open burning17
Equipment and vehicle use15
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Recreation and ceremony9
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2005Missing 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 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
7 September 2005Missing 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
6 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

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 Middle Island: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Brookhaven Aggregates PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Brookhaven Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Roanoke Mabro Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Roanoke Marboro Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
Ridge2.3 miles19
Gordon Heights2.5 miles20
Upton2.9 miles20
Siegfield Park3.0 miles20
Yaphank3.4 miles20
Coram3.6 miles33
Rocky Point4.8 miles19
East Shoreham5.2 miles19

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 Middle IslandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3461670The 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 957111. 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.