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The county seat is Riverhead, though many county
offices are in Hauppauge on the west
side of
the county where most
of the population
lives. There are also offices in Smithtown,
for
the legislature, Yaphank, and
Farmingville.
Suffolk County
was an
original county
of New York State, one of twelve created in
1683. Its boundaries were substantially the
same as at present,
with only minor changes
in the boundary with its western neighbor,
which was originally
Queens County but since
1899 has been Nassau
County. However, as
western Suffolk County has become more
suburbanized there has
been agitation by
people living in the more
rural East End of
the
island to divide Suffolk into two counties,
with the easternmost part tentatively named
Peconic County, after
the Peconic Bay.
Supporters of the idea believe that this
would
create a more efficient and responsive
government and would give
them a larger
voice
than they currently have in Suffolk County as
it now stands, as well as lower taxes.
Peconic County would
tentatively include the
towns of East Hampton, Riverhead, Shelter
Island, Southampton
and
Southold.
(Found at
www.wikipedia.org)
County
Seat: Riverhead
Year
Organized: 1683
Square
Miles: 911
Courthouse Info:
County
Center
300 Center Drive
Riverhead, NY
11901-0000
Phone:
(631) 852-1400
Fax:
(631) 853-4818
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