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North Sea, New York

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Southampton town. It lies in ZIP code area 11968. It stands on Davis Creek. The Survey maps it on the Southampton quadrangle. 5,461 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

North Sea within Suffolk County

Then and now

1903 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of North Sea, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of North Sea, surveyed 1903

Population over time

2 figures

North Sea grew from 4,458 to 5,461 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
20104,458
20205,461+1,003 (+22%)

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

185 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 185 fires within 5 miles of North Sea between 1992 and 2016, burning about 98 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 21 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/undetermined136
Arson/incendiarism21
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural6
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Debris and open burning2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 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
Hampton Park1.9 miles23
Rose Grove2.1 miles23
Tuckahoe2.3 miles23
Deerfield2.6 miles23
Art Village3.4 miles23
Water Mill3.5 miles23
Southampton3.6 miles23
Cobb3.8 miles23

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 SeaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3460263The 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 958911. 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.