STANDARD OIL COMPANY NO. 16 (harbor tug)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“Standard Oil Company No. 16, later Pegasus, was a historic harbor tugboat located at Morris Canal Basin, Jersey City, New Jersey. She was built in 1907 by the Skinner Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company of Baltimore, Maryland for the Standard Oil Company.”
Wikipedia article Standard Oil Company No. 16, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 63 National Register listings published here for Richmond County · listed in 2001 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 3001 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, 10303
When was it listed? November 2001
Category. structure
Borough. Staten Island
National Register reference number. 01001321 - 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.

Then and now

1898 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering STANDARD OIL COMPANY NO. 16 (harbor tug), surveyed 1995

Topographic sheet covering STANDARD OIL COMPANY NO. 16 (harbor tug), surveyed 1898

Fires near this property

1,157 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,157 fires within 5 miles of STANDARD OIL COMPANY NO. 16 (harbor tug) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 423 acres in total. 123 started naturally. 77 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	802
Natural	123
Arson/incendiarism	77
Smoking	55
Equipment and vehicle use	42
Debris and open burning	29
Fireworks	16
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Other causes	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
8 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.9 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
7 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Richmond County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of STANDARD OIL COMPANY NO. 16 (harbor tug): 5 past producers, 3 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Kaolin, REE, Iodine. 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
Georgia Kaolin/ Elizabeth, N.J.	Kaolin	Unknown
Linden	Iodine	Producer
Varlacoid Chemical/Elizabeth, N.J.	REE	Unknown
Cooper & Hewitt Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Iron Oxide Crppigments/Elizabeth	Iron	Past Producer
New Dorp Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Seneca Coal/ Elizabeth, N.J.	Iron	Unknown
Tyson Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Tyson's Mine & 2 Additional Mines	Iron	Past Producer	Residual

Every working recorded in Richmond County

Maps showing this location

17 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.

1898 USGS Staten Island quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000
1900 USGS Staten Island quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1905 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000 - 4 printings
1942 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1947 USGS Elizabeth quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1949 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Elizabeth quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Elizabeth quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1984 USGS Newark quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Newark quadrangle1:100000
1995 USGS Elizabeth quadrangle1:24000

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
Temple Emanu-El	1.4 miles	2007
Reformed Church on Staten Island	1.4 miles	2005
Immanuel Union Church	1.9 miles	2018
Peter Houseman House	2.0 miles	1982
Scott-Edwards House	2.0 miles	1983
Richmond Terrace Cemeteries	2.0 miles	2016

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01001321 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Richmond County	All 63 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.