Bens Point

Bens Point is a cape in Suffolk County, New York. Bens Point is situated nearby to the village Orient Point, as well as near East Marion.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Orient Beach State Park and Cross Sound Ferry.

Orient Beach State Park

Park

Photo: GCW50, Public domain.

Orient Beach State Park is a 363-acre state park located in Southold, New York. The park is situated at the tip of the North Fork of Long Island. Long Beach, located within the park, was designated a National Natural Landmark in April 1980 for its 2.5-mile sand spit beach demonstrating plant succession from salt marsh to maritime red cedar forest.

Cross Sound Ferry

Station

Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cross Sound Ferry is a passenger and road vehicle ferry service operating across the Long Island Sound between New London, Connecticut, on the mainland and Orient, New York, on Long Island.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Orient and East Marion.

Orient

Village

Photo: David Shankbone, CC BY 2.5.

Orient is a hamlet and census-designated place in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, Orient had a population of 999.

East Marion

Village

East Marion is a census-designated place that roughly corresponds to the hamlet by the same name in the town of Southold in Suffolk County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, East Marion had a population of 1,048.

Dering Harbor

Hamlet

Dering Harbor is a village located within the Town of Shelter Island, in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 50 at the time of the 2020 census, making it the least populous village in the State of New York.

Bens Point

Type: Cape
Description: cape in Suffolk County, New York, United States of America
Category: landform
Location: Suffolk County, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.1282° or 41° 7′ 42″ north

Longitude

-72.26311° or 72° 15′ 47″ west

Elevation

3 feet (1 metre)

Open location code

87H94PHP+7Q

OpenStreetMap ID

node 7525199525

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=cape

GeoNames ID

5108808

Wikidata ID

Q34642047

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In Other Languages

“Bens Point” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Bens Point”

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Localities in the Area

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