Orient Point, New York

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Southold town. It lies in ZIP code area 11957. The Survey maps it on the Orient quadrangle.

Orient Point within Suffolk County

Then and now

1904 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Orient Point, surveyed 1983

Topographic sheet of Orient Point, surveyed 1904

On record in Orient Point

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

Plum Island Light Stationlisted 2011

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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.

1904 USGS Shelter Island quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1947 USGS Orient quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Orient quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS New Haven quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

26 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Orient Point between 2000 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 3 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	13
Natural	6
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Debris and open burning	1

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
7 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
2 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
31 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
30 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 August 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Orient	2.9 miles	22
East Marion	5.0 miles	22
Dering Harbor	6.5 miles	22
Greenport	6.6 miles	22
Stirling	6.7 miles	22
Shelter Island Heights	7.3 miles	22
Greenport Homes	7.4 miles	22
Shelter Island	7.4 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 959476. 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.