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Wainscott, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1984. It stands in East Hampton town. It lies in ZIP code area 11975. The Survey maps it on the East Hampton quadrangle. 904 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 23 feet above sea level.

Wainscott within Suffolk County

Then and now

1904 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wainscott, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Wainscott, surveyed 1904

On record in Wainscott

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

Wainscott grew from 650 to 904 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
2010650
2020904+254 (+39%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 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

86 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Wainscott between 2000 and 2019, burning about 29 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined59
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
22 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
20 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2009Missing 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 Wainscott: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bistrain Gravel Corporation MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bistrian Gravel Corp Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Digate Concrete ProductsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Digate Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working 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
Midhampton0.9 miles25
Georgica1.4 miles25
Apaquogue1.7 miles25
Divinity Hill2.0 miles25
Sagaponack2.0 miles23
Jericho2.4 miles25
Hardscrabble2.6 miles25
Bridgehampton3.1 miles23

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 WainscottAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q516171The 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 968642. 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.