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Napeague, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1983. It stands in East Hampton town. It lies in ZIP code area 11930. It lies near Hicks Island. The Survey maps it on the Gardiners Island East quadrangle. 368 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7 feet above sea level.

Napeague within Suffolk County

Then and now

1903 to 1983

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 Napeague, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Napeague, surveyed 1903

Population over time

2 figures

Napeague grew from 200 to 368 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
2010200
2020368+168 (+84%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Napeague between 1992 and 2020, burning about 51 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined30
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Debris and open burning1

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
5 September 2015Debris and open burning3.3 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 August 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 August 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

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
Devon2.4 miles24
Beach Hampton3.0 miles24
Eastside3.5 miles25
Barnes Hole3.5 miles25
Amagansett4.7 miles25
Gerard Park4.8 miles25
Springs4.9 miles25
Kingstown5.0 miles25

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 NapeagueAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3460293The 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 958252. 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.