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Stepping Stones Light Station

Built in 1877. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

“Stepping Stones Light is a Victorian-style lighthouse in Long Island Sound, in Nassau County, New York. The lighthouse is square-shaped and made of red brick, standing one-and-a-half stories high.”
Wikipedia article Stepping Stones Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau County · listed in 2005 · category: Building · built in 1877, by United States Lighthouse Board.

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. Long Island Sound, 0.9 mi. NW of Elm Point at town of Kings Point, Kings Point
When was it listed? September 2005
Category. building
Town. North Hempstead town
When was it built? 1877
Architect. United States Lighthouse Board
National Register reference number. 05001026 - 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.

Then and now

1891 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Stepping Stones Light Station, surveyed 1995

Topographic sheet covering Stepping Stones Light Station, surveyed 1891

Fires near this property

1,192 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,192 fires within 5 miles of Stepping Stones Light Station between 2000 and 2020, burning about 300 acres in total. 88 started naturally. 54 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	822
Natural	88
Smoking	74
Recreation and ceremony	57
Arson/incendiarism	54
Debris and open burning	37
Equipment and vehicle use	29
Power generation/transmission/distribution	23
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2015	Natural	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.9 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Maps showing this location

15 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.

1891 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500
1897 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1898 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500 - 16 printings
1947 USGS Flushing quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Flushing 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
1966 USGS Flushing quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1995 USGS Flushing quadrangle1:24000

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
William Barstow Mansion	0.9 miles	2014
United Stated Merchant Marine Academy	1.1 miles	2014
Saddle Rock Grist Mill	2.2 miles	1978
John Philip Sousa House	2.7 miles	1966
Grace and Thomaston Buildings	3.5 miles	1978
Grace and Thomaston Buildings	3.6 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05001026 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nassau County	All 156 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.