Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of East Quogue was built recently: 6% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1982. Below: 5 old photos and papers and maps from 1903 on.
The East Quogue post office opened in 1891, the earliest record of the town by name.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of East Quogue. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of East Quogue.
From Wikipedia’s history of East Quogue.
East Quogue originally settled in 1673 and was known as Fourth Neck. In the 2010s, portions of the hamlet attempted to incorporate as a village. The attempts to incorporate the village failed in 2019 after the majority of voters within the proposed village's boundaries resident voted against incorporating.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
In the archiveAtlanticville Station
In the archiveSuffolk County, V. 1, Double Page Plate No. 22 (Map bounded by Part of Good Ground and Ca…
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
In the archivePart of Town of Southampton
In the archiveMontauk Highway at East Quoque, Long Island, New York4 decades in the archive, from the 1870s to the 1930s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on East Quogue’s page.
Retake this view · +15Nobody well known was born in East Quogue itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The East Quogue post office opened in 1891, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (6), Wikipedia and U.S. Geological Survey historical maps. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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