Opening from On This Site - Native Long Island

Quiogue

Quiogue is recorded as a neck of land between Aspatuck and Quantuck creeks in western Southampton. The place was formerly known as Little Assop's Neck. Quiogue belongs to the Quogue and Quaquanantuck landscape, between two named creeks. The 1753 town-record mention of land and meadows is handled as a timeline entry. The name is treated as another form derived from Quaquanantuck. No separate translation is given in the Quiogue entry. Why Place Names Matter “By using language to name places, or talk about them, speakers may transform a geographic entity to a social one.” — Katie Carmichael and Paul E. Reed, Language and Place (2025), Section 3.3, Place names