What is the South Fork?

Towns and Villages and Hamlets, oh my!

Southampton Town

• Bridgehampton

• East Quogue

• Flanders

• Hampton Bays

• North Haven

• Northampton

• North Sea

• Noyack

• Quiogue

• Quogue

• Remsenburg-Speonk

• Riverside

• Shinnecock Hills

• Sag Harbor (part of)

• Sagaponack

• Southampton (village)

• Tuckahoe

• Water Mill

• Westhampton

• Westhampton Beach

• West Hampton Dunes

East Hampton Town

• Amagansett

• East Hampton (village)

• Sag Harbor (part of)

• Springs

• Wainscott

East End of Long Island (source: US Census Bureau)

The East End of Long Island comprises five towns:

• Riverhead

• Southold

• Shelter Island

• East Hampton

• Southampton

The East End is generally referred to as made up of the North Fork and the South Fork along with Riverhead and Shelter Island.  Sometimes Shelter Island is lumped in with either the South Fork or the North Fork depending on who is speaking and how regionally chauvinistic they are.

South Fork and North Fork

Some people draw a line roughly north-south through the westernmost point of Flanders Bay, in Riverhead.  Everything to the east of that is either North Fork or South fork.

Other people consider the South Fork to include all of Southampton and east Hampton.

If you can point us to an authoritative statement of what truly constitutes the South Fork, please do contact us at info@south-fork.info so we can revise our site.