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Lake Ronkonkoma is a freshwater lake in Suffolk County, New York.It is a kettle lake formed by retreating glaciers and is the largest freshwater lake on Long Island; it has a circumference of about 2 miles (3.2 km) and is 0.65 miles (1.05 km) across on average. [1]
Lake Ronkonkoma is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Suffolk County, on Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 18,619 at the time of the 2020 census. [2] Lake Ronkonkoma is mainly located in the Town of Brookhaven, but has small sections in the Town of Smithtown and the Town of Islip.
Lake Ronkonkoma, 1901. The name "Ronkonkoma" comes from the nearby Lake Ronkonkoma, which in turn comes from an Algonquian expression meaning "boundary fishing-lake", also earlier written as "Raconkumake" and "Raconkamuck." [3] Since 1988, Ronkonkoma has been the end of electrification along the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line. [4]
Ronkonkoma may refer to the following places in Long Island, New York, U.S.: Ronkonkoma, New York, a hamlet and census-designated place; Ronkonkoma Branch, a rail service operated by the Long Island Rail Road; Ronkonkoma station, a railroad station; Lake Ronkonkoma (lake), a freshwater lake in Suffolk County
Hamlets located partly in the Town of Islip: Holbrook, Holtsville, Ronkonkoma; Hamlet located partly in the Town of Riverhead: Calverton; Hamlet located partly in the Town of Smithtown: Lake Ronkonkoma; Hamlet located partly in the Town of Southampton: Eastport
The Ronkonkoma Moraine, a terminal moraine, predates the Harbor Hill Moraine (which reached Long Island during the Wisconsin Glacial Episode); the Harbor Hill Moraine cut through the Ronkonkoma Moraine's western portions. [2] The Ronkonkoma Moraine and the Harbor Hill Moraine intersect at Lake Success in western Nassau County. [2]
East of the lake, the two moraines may be seen, but west of Lake Success the Harbor Hill moraine overrode and effaced the Ronkonkoma moraine. [4] South of the moraines is a broad outwash plain sloping towards the Atlantic Ocean , much of which has been submerged as ocean levels rose in the post-glacial period.
The platforms at the station in 2024. Ronkonkoma Station was originally built as Lake Ronkonkoma station in 1883 as a replacement for the 1843-built Lakeland station designed to serve both Lakeland and Ronkonkoma, New York, as well as the 1853-built Hermanville station, designed for a former community along the south side of the tracks.