North Great River, New York
30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Islip town. It lies in ZIP code area 11752. It stands on West Brook. The Survey maps it on the Bay Shore East quadrangle. 4,266 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 30 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1902 to 1984The 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.


On record in North Great River
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 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Bayard Cutting Estatelisted 1973 · 0.2 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresNorth Great River grew from 4,001 to 4,266 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 4,001 | |
| 2020 | 4,266 | +265 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 30 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1902 USGS Fire Island quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Fire Island quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1904 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1942 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000
- 1944 USGS Bay Shore East quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Bay Shore East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Bay Shore East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1,035 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,035 fires within 5 miles of North Great River between 1992 and 2020, burning about 739 acres in total. 57 started naturally. 250 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/undetermined | 612 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 250 |
| Natural | 57 |
| Smoking | 39 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 22 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 21 |
| Debris and open burning | 17 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.1 acres | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 8 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge | NYWHR-FY20-WF-SAYVILLE 6 |
| 8 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 7 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge | NYWHR-FY20-WF-SAYVILLE 5 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of North Great River: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bay Shore Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Nassau Clay Mine | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Nassau Clay Mine | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Great River in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2019: 1 hail, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Great River | $1,000 | A tree down blocking Craig Road near Connectquot Avenue. |
| August 2014 | Flash Flood | North Great River | - | An estimated two feet of standing water accumulated on Lagoon Place in East Islip while water was up to the mailboxes on Argosy St. in Islip Terrace. |
| July 2012 | Hail | North Great River | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Islip Terrace | 1.2 miles | 30 | |
| East Islip | 1.3 miles | 30 | |
| Oakdale | 1.7 miles | 30 | |
| Great River | 1.9 miles | 30 | |
| Deer Run | 2.3 miles | 30 | |
| Islip | 2.5 miles | 30 | |
| The Moorings | 2.9 miles | 30 | |
| Bohemia | 3.3 miles | 33 |
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 North Great River | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3461996 | The 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 958793. 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.













