Block Island
Facts
14 propertiesIdentity
- Instance of
- island
- Inception
- 1663[6]
- Official website
- www.new-shoreham.com[8]
- Native label
- Block Island[10]
Location
- Country
- United States[3]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 41.167°, -71.583°[7]
- Located in or next to body of water
- Atlantic Ocean[4]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Washington County[2]
Codes
- Postal code
- 02807[5]
More facts +2
- Coextensive with
- New Shoreham[14]
- Width
- +5[13]
- Library of Congress authority ID
- sh2009007386
- GND ID
- 4512428-0
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- HiRes BlockIsland Aerial 7-23-2015.jpg ↗
- ArchINFORM location ID
- 1997
- Comic Vine ID
- 4020-64216
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- place/Block-Island
- Freebase ID
- /m/028gm0
- GNIS Feature ID
- 1217555
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
- block-island-0
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
- 0438491
Show all 19 identifiers +7
- National Library of Israel J9U ID
- 987007549925405171
- OpenStreetMap relation ID
- 12022463
- Quora topic ID
- Block-Island-RI
- Topic's main category
- Category:Block Island
- U.S. National Archives Identifier
- 10037055
- Who's on First ID
- 1125967049
- Yale LUX ID
- place/bcca8743-7c5f-4c39-a6c2-861715e508d9
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- Source
- GeoNames
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
- Bronze
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← Located in/on physical feature 3
Named after 2
People who died here 2
Coextensive with 1
Country 1
Instance of 1
Located in or next to body of water 1
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Located in time zone 1
← Coextensive with 1
← Place served by transport hub 1
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Summary
Block Island is an island[1].
Body
Cultural Significance
Things named for Block Island include Block Island Wind Farm[15], an offshore wind farm[16], in United States[17] and Block Island State Airport[18], an airport[19], in United States[20].
Why It Matters
Entities named for it include Block Island Wind Farm[15], an offshore wind farm[16], in United States[17] and Block Island State Airport[18], an airport[19], in United States[20].