Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.
From the record
“Oyster Bay is the terminus on the Oyster Bay Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, located off Shore Avenue between Maxwell and Larabee Avenues, within the hamlet of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, New York, United States. It has a concrete high-level platform that stands in the shadows of the original station, which was accessible from the ends of Maxwell, Audrey, and Hamilton Avenues.”
Wikipedia article Oyster Bay station, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau County · listed in 2005 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.05000667- 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
203 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 203 fires within 5 miles of Oyster Bay Long Island Rail Road Turntable
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 101 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 28 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
91
Arson/incendiarism
28
Natural
25
Power generation/transmission/distribution
16
Smoking
16
Debris and open burning
13
Equipment and vehicle use
7
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Recreation and ceremony
3
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Oyster Bay Long Island Rail Road Turntable: 1 unknown.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Oyster Bay, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood.
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.
Powerful airmass thunderstorms developed during the evening hours. Numerous trees and power lines were downed over Orange County. As the storms moved into northern Nassau County, violent winds downed more trees and power lines. At a festival in Oyster Bay a large tent, with about 70 people inside, was blown over.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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