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Asharoken is an incorporated village in the Town of Huntington in Suffolk County, New York — one of five incorporated villages within the town — strung along a narrow isthmus on Long Island's North Shore.

The village is named after Chief Asharoken, head of the Matinecock Native American tribe; in 1656, Chief Asharoken sold the land that is now Asharoken, Eatons Neck and Northport to European settlers.

Around the turn of the 20th century, Northport lawyer William Codling marketed a development called Asharoken Beach, and by 1915 the isthmus had become a summer resort for upper-class families.

The Village of Asharoken was incorporated in 1925, when members of the Asharoken & Eaton's Neck Beach Association formed a village in order to increase their control over the roads and beaches.

Asharoken's village limits enclose part of Eatons Neck and a long, low, narrow isthmus — itself called Asharoken — that connects Northport in the southeast to Eatons Neck in the northwest, separating Northport Bay from Long Island Sound.

Although the village's total area is 6.5 square miles, only 1.4 square miles of it is land; about 79 percent of Asharoken is water.

As of the 2020 census, there were 592 people, 187 households and 296 housing units in the village — a population that has grown enormously since 1930, when just 98 people were counted.

Asharoken is unusual among small villages in maintaining its own police force, paid for predominantly by property taxes on village residents, with officers patrolling both land and water.

In 1953, cartoonist Rube Goldberg — a village resident best known for his comical invention drawings — created the portrait of Chief Asharoken that became the official village symbol.

Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote The Little Prince while living at the Delamater-Bevin Mansion in Asharoken in 1942.