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Calverton, NY
Calverton is a Hamlet (New York), hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) on East End (Long Island), eastern Long Island in Suffolk County, New York, Suffolk County, New York (state), New York, United States. The population was 6,510 at the 2010 census. Most of Calverton is in the Riverhead (town), New York, Town of Riverhead, while the area south of the Peconic River is a mostly undeveloped smaller portion in the Brookhaven, New York, Town of Brookhaven. History Calverton was first referred to as "Calverton station, Baiting Hollow Station" when the Long Island Rail Road arrived in 1844. The station closed in 1958, but the sheltered shed for the station remained standing as of 2007. The area's Native American name was ''Conungum'' or ''Kanungum'', meaning "fixed line" or "boundary". In 1868, the Calverton post office opened, named for Bernard J. Calvert. It remained a small farming community specializing in cranberry, cranberries, which grew in swampy areas along the Peconic Rive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamlet (New York)
The administrative divisions of New York are the various units of government that provide local services in the State of New York. The state is divided into boroughs, counties, cities, townships called "towns", and villages. (The only boroughs, the five boroughs of New York City, have the same boundaries as their respective counties.) They are municipal corporations, chartered (created) by the New York State Legislature, as under the New York Constitution the only body that can create governmental units is the state. All of them have their own governments, sometimes with no paid employees, that provide local services. Centers of population that are not incorporated and have no government or local services are designated hamlets. Whether a municipality is defined as a borough, city, town, or village is determined not by population or land area, but rather on the form of government selected by the residents and approved by the New York Legislature. Each type of local government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
