Long Lake is a

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, such ...

(CDP) in the town of Long Lake, Hamilton County,

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, United States. The population was 596 at the 2020 census, out of 791 in the town of Long Lake as a whole. Long Lake is within the

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Geography

The community is located in the northeastern part of Hamilton County, surrounding the southwestern half of the water body Long Lake. The center of the community is on the southeastern side of the lake, where

New York State Route 30 New York State Route 30 (NY 30) is a state highway in the central part of New York in the United States. It extends for from an interchange with NY 17 (Future Interstate 86) in the Southern Tier to the US–Canada border in t ...

crosses. The community extends southwest along Long Lake to include the hamlet of Deerland. Route 30 leads north to Tupper Lake, and south to

Blue Mountain Lake Blue Mountain Lake may refer to: * Blue Mountain Lake (Arkansas), a reservoir in Arkansas * Blue Mountain Lake (New York lake), a lake in Hamilton County in the central Adirondacks, New York * Blue Mountain Lake (hamlet), New York, a hamlet in the T ...

New York State Route 28N New York State Route 28N (NY 28N) is an east–west state highway in the North Country of New York in the United States. It extends for through the Adirondack Mountains from Blue Mountain Lake to North Creek. The route is a northerly ...

runs east from Long Lake to Newcomb, and south with Route 30 to Blue Mountain Lake. According to the

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, the CDP has a total area of , of which are land and , or 15.86%, are water. Long Lake, the water body, runs northeastward from the Long Lake CDP and is drained by the

Raquette River The Raquette River ( moh, Ahná:wate), sometimes spelled Racquette, originates at Raquette Lake in the Adirondack Mountains in New York. long, it is the third longest river entirely in the state of New York. The river is a popular destination ...

, a northward-flowing tributary of the

St. Lawrence River The St. Lawrence River (french: Fleuve Saint-Laurent, ) is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America. Its headwaters begin flowing from Lake Ontario in a (roughly) northeasterly direction, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, connecting ...

References

{{authority control Census-designated places in New York (state) Census-designated places in Hamilton County, New York Adirondacks