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Patchogue, New York

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Brookhaven town. It lies in ZIP code area 11772. It stands on Little Creek. The Survey maps it on the Patchogue quadrangle. 12,408 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 20 feet above sea level.

Patchogue 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 Patchogue, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Patchogue, surveyed 1902

On record in Patchogue

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Patchogue grew from 11,798 to 12,408 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
201011,798
202012,408+610 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 33 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

1,601 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,601 fires within 5 miles of Patchogue between 2000 and 2020, burning about 821 acres in total. 59 started naturally. 221 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/undetermined1189
Arson/incendiarism221
Natural59
Smoking40
Debris and open burning29
Equipment and vehicle use28
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Recreation and ceremony10
Fireworks5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWertheim National Wildlife RefugeNYWHR-FY20-WF-SAYVILLE 6
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this place

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Patchogue in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 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
November 2020Thunderstorm WindPatchogue$4,000Trees snapped and uprooted on Ocean Avenue.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindPatchogue$2,000Several large tree limbs were reported down in Southern Patchogue between Cedar and West Avenues to the east and west, and Amity and Laurel Streets north and south.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindPatchogue$1,000Suffolk County PD report a fallen tree.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindNorth Patchogue$1,000Power lines were reported down on Mulford Street in North Patchogue.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindPatchogue$900Downed wires were reported in Patchogue.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindPatchogue$750Large tree limbs were reported down on Cedar Avenue in Patchogue.
September 2016Flash FloodPatchogue-Flooding closed the intersection of Carman Street and Bay Avenue in Patchogue.
August 2011HailPatchogue-Quarter size hail was reported along Cedar Avenue in Patchogue.
July 2007Flash FloodPatchogue-Significant street flooding was reported.
July 2008HailPatchogue-no account filed
September 1998HailEast Patchogue-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindPatchogue-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 Patchogue1.0 miles20
Patchogue Highlands1.3 miles33
North Patchogue1.5 miles33
Blue Point1.8 miles29
Bayport2.7 miles29
Hagerman2.7 miles20
Sayville Heights3.3 miles29
Medford3.7 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 PatchogueAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q580140The 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 959977. 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.