Question: What were the earliest settlements on the island affected by Hurricane Dot in 1959?

Context articles: Dinay
Ridgefield Township, New Jersey
History of Hawaii
Longphort
Vučedol culture
Hurricane Iniki
Bual Norte, Cotabato
Current Island, Newfoundland
Hurricane Dot (1959)
Washington, Kentucky

Dinay is a village belonging to the municipality of Rull in the southern part of the island of Yap in the Federated States of Micronesia.
 The village was added to the United States National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
 It is unique in Micronesia as the site of an ancient pottery complex, and is probably one of the earliest settlements on the island.
 The ancient village complex includes more than a dozen family platforms ("daf") of such age that local folklore has forgotten their lineages, normally a significant cultural feature of such sites.
 The period of occupation is estimated to have been between about 3000 BCE and 1600 CE.
Ridgefield Township was a township that existed in Bergen County, New Jersey.
 The township was created in 1871, when Hackensack Township was trisected to form Palisades Township in the northernmost third, Englewood Township in the central strip and Ridgefield Township encompassing the southernmost portion, stretching from the Hudson River on the east to the Hackensack River, with Hudson County to the south.
 Much of the area had been during the colonial area known as the English Neighborhood.
 As described in the 1882 book, "History of Bergen and Passaic counties, New Jersey," "Ridgefield is the first township in Bergen County which the traveler enters in passing up the Palisades.
 His first impressions are much like those of old Hendrick Hudson in speaking of a wider extent of country: "A very good land to fall in with, and a pleasant land to see."
 The valley of the Hackensack invited early settlers in the seventeenth century, and the valley of the Overpeck Creek, a navigable arm of the Hackensack, also attracted settlers quite as early in this direction.
 Sloops and schooners can pass up this creek nearly to the northern boundary of the township.
 Ridgefield is bounded on the north by Englewood, on the east by the Hudson, on the south by Hudson County, and on the west by the Hackensack River.
 The southern boundary is less than two miles in extent, and the northern less than four, and the length of the township from north to south does not exceed four miles.
 Bellman's Creek, forming part of the southern boundary, the Hackensack, the Overpeck, the Hudson, with more than a dozen other smaller streams and rivulets, bountifully supply the whole township with water.
 From the western border of the Palisades the land descends to the Overpeck, forming a most beautiful valley, with the land again rising to a high ridge midway between the Overpeck and the Hackensack.
 From this long ridge, extending far to the north beyond this township, it took its name of Ridgefield.
<br><br>The New York, Susquehanna and Western, formerly the Midland Railroad, the Jersey City and Albany Railroad, and the Northern Railway of New Jersey—all running northward through the township— afford ample railroad accommodations.
 The Susquehanna enters the township at Bellman's Creek, and the Northern at about one hundred feet south of the creek, and at a point north and east of the Susquehanna.
 The Albany road in this locality is not yet constructed, diverging at present from the track of the Susquehanna between Little Ferry and Bogota stations.
 It has, however, an independent line projected and now under construction to New York City.
<br><br>Early Settlements.
 Ridgefield embraces the earliest settlements in the ancient township of Hackensack, antedating even the organization of that township in 1693, and of the county of Bergen in 1675.
 There seems to have been no town or village compactly built, like the village of Bergen, but there were settlements both of Dutch and English in and about what was subsequently known as English Neighborhood prior to 1675.
 The Westervelts, the Zimcrmans, the Bantas, and the Blauvelts, all coming from Holland, settled in the middle of the seventeenth century in that locality.
 The ancestors of Jacob P. Westervelt, now of Hackensack Village, with himself, were born in English Neighborhood.
 His father was born there in 1776, and was the son of Christopher Westervelt, who was born there certainly as early as 1690, and he was the son of the original ancestor of this family, who came from Holland and settled on Overpeck Creek, within the present limits of Ridgefield township, probably about 1670."
The history of Hawaii describes the era of human settlements in the Hawaiian Islands.
 That history begins sometime between 124 and 800 CE, with some theories dating the earliest Polynesian settlements to the 10th or even 13th century.
 Around 1200, Tahitian explorers found and began settling the area.
 This began the rise of the Hawaiian civilization.
 It remained isolated from the rest of the world for another 500 years.
A longphort (Ir.
 plur.
 "longphuirt") is a term used in Ireland for a Viking ship enclosure or shore fortress.
 Although it can be assumed that the "longphorts" were used as bases for Viking raids, it is clear that the term had multiple meanings and that these sites had multiple purposes.
 The reason it cannot be assumed that "longphorts" were solely for military purposes as that would assume that there were always large numbers of Vikings at these settlements, which is not true.
 These camps were fortified areas along rivers, usually at a tributary where both sides were protected such that the Vikings could port ships.
 The sites were easily defended, sheltered, and gave immediate access to the sea.
 These camps would be of great importance to the Vikings during their raids of Ireland, which included attacks on many churches and monasteries located on the coast of Ireland.
 It can be assumed that the purpose of these sites was to ease travel and trade within the region.
 Longphorts were essential to the economic prosperity of the Vikings.
 For example, it is clear that the earliest settlements became major trading centers throughout Ireland.
 Archeological evidence shows that imports and exports included textiles, animal skins, amber, and glass from England.
 During this time, the Vikings were able to begin a period of extremely profitable trade.
 Overall, the longphort settlements were essential in establishing the presence of the Vikings in Ireland during the ninth and tenth centuries.
The Vučedol culture (Croatian: "Vučedolska kultura" ) flourished between 3000 and 2200 BC (the Eneolithic period of earliest copper-smithing), centered in Syrmia and eastern Slavonia on the right bank of the Danube river, but possibly spreading throughout the Pannonian plain and western Balkans and southward.
 It was thus contemporary with the Sumer period in Mesopotamia, the Early Dynastic period in Egypt and the earliest settlements of Troy (Troy I and II).
 Some authors regard it as an Indo-European culture.
Hurricane Iniki ( ; Hawaiian: "ʻ iniki" meaning "strong and piercing wind") was the most powerful hurricane to strike the U.S. state of Hawaii in recorded history.
 Forming on September 5, 1992, during the strong 1990–95 El Niño, Iniki was one of eleven Central Pacific tropical cyclones during that season.
 It attained tropical storm status on September 8 and further intensified into a hurricane the next day.
 After turning north, Iniki struck the island of Kauaʻ i on September 11 at peak intensity; it had winds of 145 mph and reached Category 4 on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale.
 It had recorded wind gusts of 225 as evidenced by an anemometer that was found blown into the forest during clean up.
 It was the first hurricane to hit the state since Hurricane Iwa in the 1982 season, and the first major hurricane since Hurricane Dot in 1959.
 Iniki dissipated on September 13 about halfway between Hawaii and Alaska.
Bual Norte is a barangay in the municipality of Midsayap, Cotabato in the island of Mindanao in the Philippines.
 It is located approximately 7.5 kilometers from the poblacion of Midsayap.
 The village is one of the earliest settlements in the once-united Cotabato Empire Province.
 Its population is 1376 as of the 2007 National Census.
 The barangay is considered rural and is home to some of the government owned agriculture-related agencies such as the Philippine Rice Research Institute, National Seed Quality Testing Center of the Bureau of Plant Industry and the Agricultural Training Institute.
Current Island (also known as Currant Island) was a small town located in Newfoundland and Labrador, offshore from the west coast of the Great Northern Peninsula.
 It was likely first established as a seasonal fishing settlement in the early 1800s.
 The first recorded permanent settlement was in 1869, when there were two families totalling 30 people living there.
 Industries on the island included cod, salmon, herring, and seal fisheries, as well as logging and a sawmill.
 In 1959, an outbreak of tuberculosis on the island affected most of the residents.
 The outbreak, along with poor government services and the depletion of fuel supplies, forced the residents to abandon the town in 1965.
Hurricane Dot of August 1959 was at its time the costliest tropical cyclone in Hawaiian history.
 Dot was first identified as a strong tropical storm southeast of Hawaiʻ i on August 1.
 The storm was potentially a continuation of a previously unnamed tropical cyclone that was monitored west of the Baja California Peninsula from July 24-27, but was never confirmed due to a lack of ship reports.
 Dot was quick to intensify, reaching hurricane intensity six hours after naming.
 By August 3, Dot reached its peak intensity, with maximum sustained winds reaching 150 mph (240 km/h).
 Intensity leveled off afterwards as Dot tracked westward before making a curve towards the northwest on August 5, after which the hurricane weakened at a faster clip.
 Dot made landfall the next day on Kauai as a minimal hurricane before dissipating west of the Hawaiian Islands on August 8.
Washington is a neighborhood of the city of Maysville located near the Ohio River in Mason County in the U.S. state of Kentucky.
 It is one of the earliest settlements in Kentucky and also one of the earliest American settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains.
 It played a significant role in the lead-up to the Civil War, producing two civil war generals (one Union and one Confederate) and an escaped slave whose legal case established Canada as a safe haven for escaping slaves.
 It also provided the site where Harriet Beecher Stowe witnessed a slave auction.
 It has since been annexed by Maysville, and is sometimes now referred to as Old Washington.
 The community is in Area 606 served by the 759 exchange.