Wainscott, New York
| Wainscott, New York | |
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| Hamlet and census-designated place | |
Wainscott one-room school
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 Wainscott
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| Coordinates: 40°57′9″N 72°14′43″W / 40.95250°N 72.24528°WCoordinates: 40°57′9″N 72°14′43″W / 40.95250°N 72.24528°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| County | Suffolk |
| Town | East Hampton |
| Area | |
| • Total | 7.2 sq mi (18.7 km2) |
| • Land | 6.7 sq mi (17.4 km2) |
| • Water | 0.5 sq mi (1.3 km2) |
| Elevation | 23 ft (7 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 650 |
| • Density | 90/sq mi (35/km2) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 11975 |
| Area code(s) | 631 |
| FIPS code | 36-77805 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0968642 |
Wainscott is a census-designated place (CDP) that roughly corresponds to the hamlet with the same name in the Town of East Hampton in Suffolk County, New York, on the South Fork of Long Island. As of the 2010 United States Census, the CDP population was 650. The CDP was created for the 2000 census.
Wainscott was home to the last public one-room schoolhouse operating in New York until an annex was built in 2008.
The hamlet was named after Wainscott, Kent, a village north of Maidstone, England, an area immortalized in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and from which most of the early settlers of East Hampton came.
Facing the Atlantic Ocean to the south, Wainscott has some of the most expensive property in the world. On its west is the village of Sagaponack, and on the east is the village of East Hampton. Other communities that border Wainscott are the CDPs of East Hampton North and Northwest Harbor to the northeast, the village of Sag Harbor to the north, and the CDPs of Noyack and Bridgehampton to the west (north of Sagaponack).
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