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Orient, 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. It lies near Browns Hills. The Survey maps it on the Orient quadrangle. 999 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Orient 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, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Orient, surveyed 1904

On record in Orient

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Orient grew from 743 to 999 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
2010743
2020999+256 (+34%)

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.

Fires near this place

55 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Orient between 2000 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined29
Natural10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Debris and open burning2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 September 2010Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2011Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
31 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
30 August 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this place

5 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orient in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2015Thunderstorm WindOrient$7,500Trees and power lines were reported down throughout the Hamlet of Orient Point.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindOrient-A thunderstorm wind gust of 61 mph was reported at Orient Point mesonet at 15 ft above sea level.
June 2011Flash FloodOrient-Basement flooding occurred along Old Farm Rd. and at the Main St. pump house in Orient.
June 2008HailOrient-Quarter sized hail was reported in Orient.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindOrient-Large branches and a couple of trees reported down from Southold to Orient.

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 Marion2.1 miles22
Orient Point2.9 miles22
Stirling3.8 miles22
Greenport3.8 miles22
Dering Harbor3.9 miles22
Greenport Homes4.6 miles22
Shelter Island Heights4.7 miles22
Shelter Island5.2 miles22

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 OrientAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3461988The 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 959470. 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.

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.