Editing Northport, New York (section)

==Geography==
[[File:Northport-ny-map.gif|left|thumb|U.S. Census map of Northport]]
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the village has a total area of {{convert|2.5|sqmi|km2}}, of which {{convert|2.3|sqmi|km2}} is land and {{convert|0.2|sqmi|km2}}, or 9.02%, is water.<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=April 23, 2011|date=February 12, 2011|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref><ref name="Census 2010">{{Cite web |title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Northport village, New York |url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US3653396 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212190131/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US3653396 |archive-date=February 12, 2020 |access-date=December 20, 2012 |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder}}</ref>

Most of the village is made up of the low, steep hills of the [[Harbor Hill Moraine]]. To the west is the highly sheltered Northport Harbor, to the north is Long Island Sound, and to the east are woods and marshland.

A prominent feature of Northport is Steer's Pit (known simply as "The Pit" to locals<ref name="Newsday"/>), a large land depression carved into the cliffs adjacent to Northport Harbor and just south of the [[Northport Power Station]]'s prominent smokestacks. This unusual geographic feature is the result of [[sand mining]] operations by the Steers and Steers Company. Mining began in 1923 and ceased in the 1950s.<ref>{{cite web | last = Bennington | first = J Bret | title = Glacial Features of the Huntington and Northport Area, Long Island | work = Department of Geology | publisher = [[Hofstra University]] | date = November 3, 2002 | url = http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/J_B_Bennington/field_trips/caumsett_02/northport_trip.htm | access-date = February 8, 2007 | archive-date = August 29, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080829225656/http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/J_B_Bennington/field_trips/caumsett_02/northport_trip.htm | url-status = dead }}</ref> The mined sand was shipped by barge to [[New York City]] where, mixed with [[Portland cement]] and rock aggregate, it became the sidewalks of New York. {{Citation needed|date=May 2008}} The area has since been utilized for home and condo use, and a portion of the Pit is a park used by local youth soccer and baseball leagues. The Northport Fire Department maintains a training facility in the Pit that is the site of the annual fireman's fair in the summer.

=== Greater Northport Area ===
Northport consists of 2 villages and 7 unincorporated hamlets:

* Northport
* [[East Northport, New York|East Northport]]
* [[Asharoken, New York|Asharoken]]
* [[Centerport, New York|Centerport]]
* [[Eatons Neck, New York|Eatons Neck]]
* [[Greenlawn, New York|Greenlawn]]
* [[Vernon Valley, New York|Vernon Valley]]
* [[Wincoma, New York|Wincoma]]
* [[Fort Salonga, New York|Fort Salonga]]