Birch Creek Pond

Birch Creek Pond is a reservoir in Suffolk County, New York. Birch Creek Pond is situated nearby to the town Flanders, as well as near the neighborhood Red Creek.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Big Duck.

Big Duck

Photo: Mike Peel, Public domain.

The Big Duck is a 20-foot-tall ferrocement building in the shape of a duck: a canonical example of novelty architecture. Built in 1931 in Riverhead, New York, United States, it was moved several times to various locations on eastern Long Island, ending up in Flanders in 2007.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Flanders and South Jamesport.

Flanders

Town

Photo: Jemattox, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Flanders is a hamlet and a census-designated place in Suffolk County, on Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 5,095 at the time of the 2020 census.

South Jamesport

Hamlet

South Jamesport is a hamlet in the town of Riverhead, Suffolk County, New York, United States. The community is located on the north shore of the Great Peconic Bay.

Jamesport

Village

Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Jamesport is a hamlet and census-designated place in Riverhead, Suffolk County, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island. As of the 2020 census, Jamesport had a population of 1,609.

Birch Creek Pond

Type: Reservoir
Category: body of water
Location: Suffolk County, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.89811° or 40° 53′ 53″ north

Longitude

-72.59178° or 72° 35′ 30″ west

Elevation

7 feet (2 metres)

Open location code

87G9VCX5+67

OpenStreetMap ID

way 233074330

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=water

OpenStreetMap feature

water=reservoir

GeoNames ID

6327737

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Highlights include Flanders Memorial Park and Sears Pond.

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