Fishers Landing is a
hamlet
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and
census-designated place
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(CDP) in the
town
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of
Orleans in
Jefferson County,
New York
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, United States. It is just southwest of
Grass Point State Park in the
Thousand Islands
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region of New York. As of the
2020 census the community had a population of 119.
Geography
Fishers Landing is in the northern part of the town of Orleans, on the south bank of the
St. Lawrence River
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where it enters the American Narrows, a channel separating the mainland from
Wellesley Island
Wellesley Island is an island in Jefferson County, New York, the island is partially in the Town of Orleans and partially in the Town of Alexandria.
History
The island was named Wells Island but during his 1815 survey of the US-Canada borde ...
(also part of the town of Orleans). There is a local
marina
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where island owners and visitors park their car/boat while traveling to and from the mainland. The
Rock Island Light, a New York state park, is out in the channel from Fishers Landing, and the community of
Thousand Island Park is directly across the channel on Wellesley Island.
New York State Route 12
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passes along the southeast edge of the Fishers Landing CDP, leading northeast (downstream along the St. Lawrence) to
Interstate 81
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and to
Alexandria Bay
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, and southwest (upriver) to
Clayton.
New York State Route 180
New York State Route 180 (NY 180) is a north–south state highway in the northwestern part of Jefferson County in the U.S. state of New York. The southern terminus of the route is at NY 3 in the Hounsfield hamlet of Bagg ...
intersects Route 12 at Fishers Landing, leading south to
La Fargeville.
Watertown, the Jefferson
county seat
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, is to the south.
According to the
U.S. Census Bureau
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, the Fishers Landing CDP has a total area of , of which , or 0.72%, are water.
Demographics
Education
The school district is the
Thousand Islands Central School District.
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See also
* '' A.E. Vickery''
* NEPCO 140 oil spill
References
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Hamlets in New York (state)
Census-designated places in Jefferson County, New York
Census-designated places in New York (state)
Hamlets in Jefferson County, New York