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Photograph of First Congregational Church of Bay Shore
Photograph by DanTD, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

First Congregational Church of Bay Shore

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“First Congregational Church of Bay Shore is a historic Congregational church complex at 1860 Union Boulevard on the corner of First Street at Bay Shore, Suffolk County, New York, United States. Contributing elements of the complex consists of three attached units: the 1891 Romanesque Revival / Shingle Style church and rectory.”

Wikipedia article First Congregational Church of Bay Shore, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2002 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 1860 Union Blvd., Bay Shore, 11706
  • When was it listed? May 2002
  • Category. building
  • Town. Islip town
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States, Romanesque Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 02000448 - 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

1,129 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,129 fires within 5 miles of First Congregational Church of Bay Shore between 1992 and 2020, burning about 842 acres in total. 107 started naturally. 312 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/undetermined620
Arson/incendiarism312
Natural107
Debris and open burning22
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Equipment and vehicle use18
Smoking18
Recreation and ceremony9
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2018Arson/incendiarism3.1 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot 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 First Congregational Church of Bay Shore: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bay Shore PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Nassau Clay MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Nassau Clay MineClayPast 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Bay Shore Hose Company No. 1 Firehouseunder 500 feet2001
Bay Shore Methodist Episcopal Church0.2 miles2001
US Post Office-Bay Shore0.2 miles1988
John Mollenhauer House0.6 miles2014
Rafael Jr. Guastavino House0.8 miles2013
Wereholme1.9 miles2007

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02000448 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Suffolk CountyAll 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.