New Suffolk School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“New Suffolk School is a historic school building located at New Suffolk in Suffolk County, New York. It was built in 1907 and is a one-story, hip-roofed structure on a raised brick basement, with an engaged two-story central tower.”
Wikipedia article New Suffolk School, 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Fifth Street at King St., New Suffolk, 11956
When was it listed? September 2002
Category. building
Town. Southold town
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States, Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 02001050 - 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

102 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of New Suffolk School between 2001 and 2020, burning about 41 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 11 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	60
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	11
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Debris and open burning	3
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	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 2014	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
13 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
12 September 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
11 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Suffolk, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	New Suffolk	-	A 56 knot wind gust was measured at 10 meters by a home weather station.
August 2016	Flash Flood	New Suffolk	-	New Suffolk Avenue was closed northbound due to flooding in New Suffolk.
May 2000	Hail	New Suffolk	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1903 USGS Sag Harbor quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Sag Harbor quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1947 USGS Southampton quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Southampton 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
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island East quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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
Old House, The	1.2 miles	1966
Joshua Wells House	1.3 miles	2002
David Tuthill Farmstead	1.4 miles	1984
Jesse and Ira Tuthill House	2.3 miles	2006
Andrew Gildersleeve Octagonal Building	2.5 miles	1976
High House & Studio	3.1 miles	2025

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001050 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.