Dear NYHistorians, Geographers, etc.,
For those interested in the 292 communities of Nassau and Suffolk County,
there is a free report available that lists each of these communities and
includes town-by-town maps showing the borders of villages and hamlets in
each of the 13 towns (3 towns in Nassau and 10 towns in Suffolk).
Each year, LIPA, as successor to LILCO, publishes a report (the report is
published by LIPA, but is written by KeySpan, for a short while known as
MarketSpan and immediately before that as LILCO) updating the census
population numbers (by using people-per-electric meter ratios) for all the
292 communities on Long Island.
There are 2 cities and 13 towns (as well as 2 Indian reservations) in the
bi-counties and the 13 towns (3 in Nassau and 10 in Suffolk) are further
sub-divided into 95 villages and 195 hamlets, yielding 292 communities (2 +
95 + 195 = 292).
. Nassau Suffolk Total
. cities 2 0 2
. villages 64 31 95
. hamlets 70 125 195
. total 136 156 292
The heart of this 40-page report are maps of each of the 13 towns (3 in
Nassau, 10 in Suffolk), showing the true borders of all villages and hamlets
(not the postal zone borders) in each town. The facing pages list which
communities are villages or hamlets and their populations. (You'll find
villages and hamlets that you never knew existed because they are in some
other community-named postal zone.)
I consider this the best resource available in understanding the geography
and governmental organization of Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
Instructions for downloading the LI Population Survey follow after my
"signature".
If you will be so kind, please let me know what you think of this report
after you have downloaded it.
Sincerely,
Walter Greenspan
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The following are the instructions to obtain a copy of the LI Population
Survey:
First, the report is in Adobe Acrobat format (*.pdf) and thus you will need
Adobe Acrobat to open the file. You can obtain a free copy of Acrobat Reader
(1.7 mb storage space required) by clicking on:
<A HREF="http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html">AdobeAcrobatFre
e Reader</A>
If your clicker don't work so well, then type in:
http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html
Once you have Acrobat Reader, then go to:
<A HREF="http://www.suffolk.lib.ny.us/">SuffolkWeb</A>
If your clicker don't work so well, then type in:
http://www.suffolk.lib.ny.us/
Once at the Suffolk Web site, click on the button for GOVERNMENT and then at
the GOVERNMENT page, click on the button for the LI Population Survey.
The Population Report is 1,672K and takes about 5 minutes or so to download.
For those who want to go directly to the LI Population Survey, click on:
<A HREF="http://www.suffolk.lib.ny.us/govdocs/lipa.pdf">lipa.pdfatwww.suffolk.
lib.ny.us</A>
If your clicker don't work so well, then type in:
http://www.suffolk.lib.ny.us/govdocs/lipa.pdf
This is an "exact" copy of the Long Island Population Survey Report, only
excluding the cover page (and I do not know anyone, other than Mrs. Kessel,
who will be upset because they won't be able to see a picture of LIPA
Chairman, Richard Kessel that is on the reverse side of the cover).
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