Fire Island (N.Y.
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- Columbia gaz. of North Amer., via WWW, Dec. 4, 2003(Fire Island, narrow barrier island, 32 mi/51 km long, off S shore of L.I., SE N.Y., separating Great South Bay from the Atlantic Ocean; 40⁰45ʹN 72⁰50ʹW)
- Merriam-Web. geog. dict., c1997(Fire Island also Fire Island Beach. Long narrow sandy spit of land off S cent. Long Island, New York, bet. Great South Bay and Atlantic Ocean; ab. 30 mi. (48 km.) long, 0.25 to 0.5 mi. (0.4 to 0.8 km.) wide)
- GNIS, Dec. 4, 2003(Fire Island, island, New York, Suffolk Co., variant names: Fire Island Beach, Great South Beach, Sand Banks; also, Fire Island, pop. place, estimated population (2000): 310, New York, Suffolk Co., 40⁰38ʹ51ʺN 073⁰08ʹ47ʺW; also, Great South Beach, beach, New York, Suffolk Co., variant names: Fire Island, Fire Island Beach, Pikes Beach; also variant name for East Fire Island, island and West Fire Island, island)
Fire Island is the large center island of the outer barrier islands parallel to the South Shore of Long Island in the U.S. state of New York. Occasionally, the name is used to refer collectively to not only the central island, but also Long Beach Barrier Island, Jones Beach Island, and Westhampton Island, since the straits that separate these islands are ephemeral. In 2012, Hurricane Sandy once again divided Fire Island into two islands. Together, these two islands are about 31 miles (50 km) long and vary between 520 and 1,310 feet (160 and 400 m) wide. The land area of Fire Island is 9.6 square miles (24.9 km2). Fire Island is part of Suffolk County. It lies within the towns of Babylon, Islip, and Brookhaven, containing two villages and several hamlets. All parts of the island not within village limits are part of the Fire Island census-designated place (CDP), which had a permanent population of 777 at the 2020 census, though that expands to thousands of residents and tourists during the summer. The neighborhoods of Cherry Grove and Fire Island Pines are known as gay-friendly tourist destinations.
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