Bay Shore Hose Company No. 1 Firehouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Bay Shore Hose Company No. 1 Firehouse, also known as Second Avenue Fire House, is a historic fire station located at Bay Shore in Suffolk County, New York. It was built in 1886 or 1887 and is a wood-frame structure with a prominent bell tower.”
Wikipedia article Bay Shore Hose Company No. 1 Firehouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Second Ave., Bay Shore, 11706
When was it listed? August 2001
Category. building
Town. Islip town
National Register reference number. 01000851 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

1,112 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,112 fires within 5 miles of Bay Shore Hose Company No. 1 Firehouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 819 acres in total. 107 started naturally. 303 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	615
Arson/incendiarism	303
Natural	107
Debris and open burning	21
Misuse of fire by a minor	18
Smoking	18
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Recreation and ceremony	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	3.1 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.9 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bay Shore Hose Company No. 1 Firehouse: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Bay Shore Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Nassau Clay Mine	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Nassau Clay Mine	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

14 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1902 USGS Fire Island quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Fire Island quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1904 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000 - 5 printings
1942 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Bay Shore East quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Bay Shore East quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Bay Shore East quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
First Congregational Church of Bay Shore	under 500 feet	2002
Bay Shore Methodist Episcopal Church	under 500 feet	2001
US Post Office-Bay Shore	0.1 miles	1988
John Mollenhauer House	0.6 miles	2014
Rafael Jr. Guastavino House	0.8 miles	2013
Wereholme	1.8 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000851 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Suffolk County	All 338 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.