Photograph of Modesty — Photograph by Dmadeo, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

MODESTY (south-sider Sloop)

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

From the record

“Modesty was an oyster sloop built in 1923 by The Wood and Chute Shipyard of Greenport, Long Island, and is now located at the Long Island Maritime Museum in West Sayville, New York.”
Wikipedia article Modesty (sloop), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2001 · category: Structure · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 84 West Ave, Long Island Maritime Museum, West Sayville, 11796
When was it listed? August 2001
Category. structure
Town. Islip town
National Register reference number. 01001051 - 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

716 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 716 fires within 5 miles of MODESTY (south-sider Sloop) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 577 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 76 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	568
Arson/incendiarism	76
Natural	22
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Smoking	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Debris and open burning	8
Recreation and ceremony	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge	NYWHR-FY20-WF-SAYVILLE 6
7 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge	NYWHR-FY20-WF-SAYVILLE 5
6 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Sayville, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	West Sayville	$7,500	A large tree was reported down in West Sayville, bringing down power lines. This pulled lines from a house, causing minor damage.
July 2025	Flash Flood	West Sayville	-	Car stuck in flood waters on Bartley Lane and Andrea Lane.
July 2025	Flash Flood	West Sayville	-	Reports of several feet of water at the intersection of Locust Ave and Bourne Blvd.
June 2019	Hail	West Sayville	-	Hail of 0.75 inches reported.

Every storm 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
1947 USGS Sayville quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Sayville quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Sayville 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
Priscilla (Long Island Sound Oyster Sloop)	under 500 feet	2006
Rudolph Oyster House	under 500 feet	2001
Edwards House, The	1.2 miles	2010
Sayville Congregational Church	1.3 miles	2005
St. Johns Episcopal Church and Cemetery	1.4 miles	1994
Saint Ann's Episcopal Church	1.4 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01001051 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.