Bridgeport

Geography

Bridgeport is located in northwestern Madison County and northeastern Onondaga County at (43.154472, -75.974888). It straddles the northward-flowing Chittenango Creek, which serves as the boundary between Onondaga County's town of Cicero on the west side of the creek and Madison County's town of Sullivan on the east side of the creek. The hamlet's namesake bridge spans the creek, which empties into Oneida Lake 2.25 linear miles approximately north of the bridge. There is no other bridge across Chittenango Creek north of Bridgeport, nor one within several linear miles to the south. New York State Route 31 is an east–west highway through the community (the bridge over Chittenango Creek is on Route 31); it leads east to Verona and west to Niagara Falls. The north end of New York State Route 298 is at Route 31 in the hamlet, just west of Chittenango Creek. Syracuse is to the southwest via Route 298. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Bridgeport CDP has an area of , of which , or 0.77%, are water.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• Northern Cardinal

  Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  15,728
• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  15,424
• American Crow

  Corvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 · Aves
  14,854
• American Goldfinch

  Spinus tristis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  13,031
• Black-capped Chickadee

  Poecile atricapillus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  12,912
• Mourning Dove

  Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  12,478
• Song Sparrow

  Melospiza melodia (A.Wilson, 1810) · Aves
  11,519
• Red-winged Blackbird

  Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  11,438

Most recent

• M 2.5 — 2026-04-26
  6 km SE of Lowville, New York
• M 2.8 — 2026-03-21
  28 km WSW of Henderson, New York
• M 3.3 — 2024-06-29
  14 km W of Ellisburg, New York
• M 3.6 — 2023-04-23
  New York
• M 2.6 — 2023-04-14
  1 km W of Adams Center, New York
• M 2.59 — 2007-04-11
  6 km NNE of Sodus Point, New York