Peconic, 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 11958. The Survey maps it on the Southold quadrangle. 692 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 30 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1904 to 1983The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresPeconic grew from 683 to 692 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 | 683 | |
| 2020 | 692 | +9 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 22 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.
- 1904 USGS Shelter Island quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Southold quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Southold 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
96 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Peconic between 2000 and 2020, burning about 35 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 11 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 | 46 |
| Natural | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 15 September 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 14 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 13 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 12 September 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 8 August 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 August 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 6 August 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peconic in 1 storm report in 2015: 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 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peconic | $5,000 | Scattered trees and branches were reported down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Cutchogue | 1.5 miles | 22 | |
| Laughing Waters | 2.0 miles | 22 | |
| Nassau Farms | 2.2 miles | 22 | |
| Southold | 2.3 miles | 22 | |
| Bay View | 2.3 miles | 22 | |
| Cutchogue Station | 2.6 miles | 22 | |
| Cutchogue | 2.8 miles | 22 | |
| Bayview | 2.8 miles | 22 |
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 Peconic | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3461877 | 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 960091. 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.








