Fishers Landing, New York
Fishers Landing is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Orleans in Jefferson County, New York, United States. It is just southwest of Grass Point State Park in the Thousand Islands region of New York. As of the 2010 census the community had a population of 89.Geography
Fishers Landing is in the northern part of the town of Orleans, on the south bank of the St. Lawrence River where it enters the American Narrows, a channel separating the mainland from Wellesley Island. There is a local marina where island owners and visitors park their car/boat while traveling to and from the mainland. The Rock Island Light, a New York state park, is out in the channel from Fishers Landing, and the community of Thousand Island Park is directly across the channel on Wellesley Island.
New York State Route 12 passes along the southeast edge of the Fishers Landing CDP, leading northeast to Interstate 81 and to Alexandria Bay, and southwest to Clayton. New York State Route 180 intersects Route 12 at Fishers Landing, leading south to La Fargeville. Watertown, the Jefferson county seat, is to the south.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Fishers Landing CDP has a total area of, of which, or 0.72%, are water.
