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Poquott, New York

32 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 11733. It lies near Mount Misery. The Survey maps it on the Port Jefferson quadrangle. 903 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 66 feet above sea level.

Poquott 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 Poquott, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Poquott, surveyed 1902

On record in Poquott

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

Population over time

2 figures

Poquott fell from 953 to 903 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
2010953
2020903-50 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 32 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

712 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 712 fires within 5 miles of Poquott between 2000 and 2020, burning about 260 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 49 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/undetermined573
Arson/incendiarism49
Natural39
Equipment and vehicle use17
Smoking13
Debris and open burning8
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing 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

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Poquott: 1 past producer, 1 plant, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lawrence Aviation Industries PlantTitaniumUnknown
Port Jefferson Station B PlantTitanium, MetalPlant
Suffolk Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Suffolk Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Poquott in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 WindPoquott$7,500Multiple trees were reported down on Harmony Lane.
September 2021Flash FloodPoquott-The Port Jefferson Fire Department responded to numerous water rescue emergencies in the town. Multiple occupants were rescued by the department's high water unit, with some occupants found on the roof of their vehicles or trapped inside floating vehicles. There was also a landslide on Dark Hollow Road, which left the road impassable with 4 feet of debris. Eight families were evacuated from their apartment building on that road due to unstable conditions of the land.

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
Port Jefferson0.8 miles32
Belle Terre1.1 miles32
East Setauket1.3 miles32
Setauket2.1 miles32
Crystal Brook2.2 miles32
Old Field2.5 miles33
Port Jefferson Station2.6 miles32
South Setauket2.8 miles32

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 PoquottAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q370133The 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 960954. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.