Bellport Academy

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Bellport Academy is a historic school building located at Bellport in Suffolk County, New York. It was built in 1833 as the village's first school and remodeled in 1919.”
Wikipedia article Bellport Academy, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 1980 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. 24 Academy Lane, Bellport, 11713
When was it listed? July 1980
Category. site
Also known as. Village of Bellport MRA
Town. Brookhaven town
National Register reference number. 02001452 - 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

830 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 830 fires within 5 miles of Bellport Academy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 543 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 180 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	524
Arson/incendiarism	180
Smoking	42
Natural	24
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Debris and open burning	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Recreation and ceremony	9
Fireworks	7

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 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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	N/A
7 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bellport, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2006: 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2006	Lightning	Bellport	1 hurt	A 34-year-old man was struck by lightning while erecting a fence at Frank P. Long Intermediate School.

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.

1904 USGS Moriches quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Bellport quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Bellport 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 Bellport quadrangle1:24000 - 3 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
Bellport Village Historic District	0.2 miles	1980
Smith-Rourke House	2.2 miles	1989
ELVIRA (sloop)	2.4 miles	2012
Swan River Schoolhouse	2.8 miles	2017
United Methodist Church	3.3 miles	1984
St. Paul's Episcopal Church Complex	3.8 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001452 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.