Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: 5 old photos and papers and maps from 1903 on.
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 Quiogue. 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 Quiogue.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Quiogue yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Quiogue is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Southampton, in Suffolk County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, Quiogue had a population of 1,013. The name of the CDP was corrected from "Quioque" to "Quiogue" by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2010.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
In the archiveSouthampton
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 archiveQuiogue LI Presby PHS8114 decades in the archive, from the 1870s to the 1920s. 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 Quiogue’s page.
Retake this view · +15Nobody well known was born in Quiogue 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.
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) 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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