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Photograph of Sayville Congregational Church
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Upstate New York, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Sayville Congregational Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Sayville Congregational Church, also known as Sayville Congregational United Church of Christ, is a historic Congregational church at 131 Middle Road in Sayville, Suffolk County, New York. It was built in 1888 and is a Shingle Style building with a cross gabled roof, two prominent towers, and fish-scale shingles.”

Wikipedia article Sayville Congregational Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2005 · 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. 131 Middle Rd., Sayville, 11782
  • When was it listed? July 2005
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Isaac Henry Green, Jr. Suffolk and Nassau Counties, New York MPS
  • Town. Islip town
  • Architectural style. Shingle style architecture
  • Architect. Isaac H. Green Jr.
  • National Register reference number. 05000747 - 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

949 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 949 fires within 5 miles of Sayville Congregational Church between 2000 and 2020, burning about 467 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 95 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/undetermined757
Arson/incendiarism95
Natural33
Equipment and vehicle use23
Debris and open burning11
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking9
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWertheim National Wildlife RefugeNYWHR-FY20-WF-SAYVILLE 6
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWertheim National Wildlife RefugeNYWHR-FY20-WF-SAYVILLE 5
6 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sayville, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWest Sayville$7,500A large tree was reported down in West Sayville, bringing down power lines. This pulled lines from a house, causing minor damage.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindSayville$3,000Large oak tree snapped at the intersection of Depot Street and Railroad Avenue.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindSayville$2,000Power lines down across Main Street in Sayville, NY with time estimated by radar.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindSayville$1,000Power lines were reported down on Lincoln Avenue in Sayville.
July 2025Flash FloodWest Sayville-Car stuck in flood waters on Bartley Lane and Andrea Lane.
July 2025Flash FloodWest Sayville-Reports of several feet of water at the intersection of Locust Ave and Bourne Blvd.
June 2019HailWest Sayville-Hail of 0.75 inches reported.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindSayville-no account filed
January 1999Thunderstorm WindSayville-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindSayville-no account filed

Every storm 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
Edwards House, The0.2 miles2010
Saint Ann's Episcopal Church0.2 miles2010
Joseph Wood House0.2 miles2003
John Ellis Roosevelt Estate0.5 miles1987
Rudolph Oyster House1.3 miles2001
Priscilla (Long Island Sound Oyster Sloop)1.3 miles2006

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05000747 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.
  • 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.