Southold, 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 11971. It stands on Jockey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Southold quadrangle. 6,040 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 23 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.


On record in Southold
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 7 records
Joseph Nelson Hallock Houselisted 2005
Horton Point Lighthouselisted 1994
Samuel Landon Houselisted 2005
Henry W. Prince Buildinglisted 2005
Southold Historic Districtlisted 1997
Town Doctors' House and Sitelisted 2005- Fort Terry Historic Districtlisted 2021
Population over time
2 figuresSouthold grew from 5,748 to 6,040 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 | 5,748 | |
| 2020 | 6,040 | +292 (+5%) |
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
108 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Southold between 2000 and 2020, burning about 52 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 10 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 | 51 |
| Natural | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
| 2 September 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 14 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 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 |
| 6 August 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Southold in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Southold | $7,500 | Numerous trees and wires were reported down across town. |
| September 2000 | Tornado (F1) | Southold | - | As a line of thunderstorms and heavy showers moved southeast, one cell spawned a short-lived tornado in the town of Southold on the North Fork of Long Island.The National Weather Service conducted a storm survey and confirmed the occurrence of a weak tornado in the Nassau Point area of Little Hog Neck. This tornado was classified as an F1 with wind speeds estimated from 80 to 100 mph.The weak tornado first touched down in the back yard of three homes on the west side of Nassau Point Road around 6:20 am EDT. Then it moved through the front yard of one of the homes, where it did its' greatest damage. Most of the damage was to trees. Many trees had numerous branches twisted off and several trees were snapped off and deposited a good distance from where they grew. Slight structural damage was done to the roof of the house.The tornado crossed over to the east side of Nassau Point Road and apparently lifted as it moved across Hog Neck Bay. It touched down again in Bayview (on the other side of Hog Neck Bay) around 6:40 am EDT. Two eyewitnesses on Rambler Road experienced very strong winds, which uprooted trees and damaged several pieces of heavy lawn furniture. In this vicinity, the tornado was classified as an F0, with an approximate path length of 0.1 miles and average path width of 10 yards. |
| September 2006 | Flash Flood | Southold | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Flash Flood | Southold | - | no account filed |
| December 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Southold | - | no account filed |
| February 1998 | Lightning | Southold | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beixedon Estates | 0.8 miles | 22 | |
| Bay View | 1.7 miles | 22 | |
| Bayview | 1.7 miles | 22 | |
| Reydon Shores | 1.9 miles | 22 | |
| Laughing Waters | 2.0 miles | 22 | |
| Peconic | 2.3 miles | 22 | |
| Arshamonaque | 2.5 miles | 22 | |
| Cedar Beach | 2.7 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 Southold | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3825947 | 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 965910. 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.








