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Nesconset, New York

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Smithtown town. It lies in ZIP code area 11767. The Survey maps it on the Central Islip quadrangle. 13,207 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 118 feet above sea level.

Nesconset 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 Nesconset, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Nesconset, surveyed 1902

Population over time

2 figures

Nesconset fell from 13,387 to 13,207 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
201013,387
202013,207-180 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 35 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

864 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 864 fires within 5 miles of Nesconset between 2000 and 2020, burning about 353 acres in total. 93 started naturally. 154 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/undetermined485
Arson/incendiarism154
Natural93
Smoking55
Misuse of fire by a minor22
Debris and open burning19
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Equipment and vehicle use15
Recreation and ceremony5

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
9 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2002Missing 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 Nesconset: 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Kings Park PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Smithtown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Smithtown PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Split Rock MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this place

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nesconset in 5 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 3 flash flood, 1 hail, 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
August 2019Thunderstorm WindNesconset$1,000A Large tree branch down on Gibbs Pond Road near Steuben Boulevard.
August 2024Flash FloodNesconset-Two cars stranded in flood waters at the intersection of Old Nichols Road and Smithtown Boulevard.
August 2021Flash FloodNesconset-Flooding in Lake Ronkonkoma was resulting in impassable roadways at the intersection of Old Nichols Road and Rolling Hills Drive.
May 2004HailNesconset-As a cluster of severe thunderstorms moved across the region, trained spotters reported up to quarter size hail in Nesconset. Penny size hail was observed in Ridge and Wading River.
July 2006Flash FloodNesconset-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
East Hauppauge1.2 miles35
Lake Ronkonkoma1.7 miles35
Village of the Branch1.8 miles35
Saint James1.9 miles33
Lake Grove2.1 miles33
The Landing2.4 miles35
Smithtown2.5 miles35
Centereach2.9 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 NesconsetAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3461978The 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 958373. 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.