Long Island · NY
Southold
The first English settlement on Long Island, now wine country.
- Town population
- 23,732 (2020 census)
- Settled
- October 21, 1640
- Peninsula
- The North Fork
Then
- 1640
Puritans from New Haven settle Southold on October 21, in most histories the first English settlement on Long Island.
- 1680
Mattituck is settled.
- Late 1900s
North Fork farmland turns to vineyards, and a respected wine region grows up.
Now
Southold covers the North Fork, from Mattituck and Cutchogue to Orient. Great and Little Peconic bays separate it from the South Fork, with Northville, New Suffolk and Noyack Bay on these waters.
11 tide stations around Southold
- New Suffolk5.6 mi
- Noyack Bay6.9 mi
- Mattituck Inlet7.9 mi
- Sag Harbor8.0 mi
- South Jamesport12.1 mi
- Threemile Harbor entrance, Gardiners Bay12.5 mi
- Northville12.8 mi
- Ponquoque Point15.4 mi
- Shinnecock Inlet (ocean)16.0 mi
- Shinnecock Bay entrance18.3 mi