Fishers Landing, New York | |
Settlement Type: | Census-designated place |
Pushpin Map: | New York#USA |
Pushpin Label: | Fishers Landing |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | New York |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Jefferson |
Subdivision Type3: | Town |
Subdivision Name3: | Orleans |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 2.62 |
Area Land Km2: | 1.17 |
Area Water Km2: | 1.45 |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 1.01 |
Area Land Sq Mi: | 0.45 |
Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.56 |
Elevation Ft: | 305 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Total: | 119 |
Population Density Km2: | 101.84 |
Population Density Sq Mi: | 263.86 |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Coordinates: | 44.2728°N -76.0003°W |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 13641 |
Area Code: | 315 |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 972473 |
Blank1 Name: | FIPS code |
Blank1 Info: | 36-25934 |
Fishers Landing is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Orleans in Jefferson County, New York, United States. It is just southwest of Grass Point State Park[2] in the Thousand Islands region of New York. As of the 2020 census the community had a population of 119.
Fishers Landing is in the northern part of the town of Orleans, on the south bank of the St. Lawrence River where it enters the American Narrows, a channel separating the mainland from Wellesley Island (also part of the town of Orleans). There is a local marina where island owners and visitors park their car/boat while traveling to and from the mainland. The Rock Island Light, a New York state park, is NaNmiles out in the channel from Fishers Landing, and the community of Thousand Island Park is directly across the channel on Wellesley Island.
New York State Route 12 passes along the southeast edge of the Fishers Landing CDP, leading northeast (downstream along the St. Lawrence) 2miles to Interstate 81 and 6miles to Alexandria Bay, and southwest (upriver) 5miles to Clayton. New York State Route 180 intersects Route 12 at Fishers Landing, leading south 6miles to La Fargeville. Watertown, the Jefferson county seat, is to the south.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Fishers Landing CDP has a total area of 0.58sqkm, of which 41831NaN1, or 0.72%, are water.[3]