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Photograph of Latimer Reef Light
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Latimer Reef Light Station

Built in 1804. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.

From the record

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2006 · category: Building · built in 1804.

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

The listing

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Latimer Reef Light Station: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Granite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mcgaughey QuarryGranitePast Producer
QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

13 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

1 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
Race Rock Light Station7.1 miles2005

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 06000635 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.
  • 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.