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Photograph of Orient Point Light
Photograph by Unknown, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Orient Point Light Station

Built in 1899. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Orient Point Light is a sparkplug lighthouse off Orient Point, New York in Plum Gut of Long Island Sound - the deep and narrow gap between Orient Point and Plum Island. It was built in 1899 and was automated in 1954.”

Wikipedia article Orient Point Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2007 · category: Building · built in 1899.

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. NE tip of Long Island, 1.1 mi. NE of Eastern Terminus of NY 25, Orient, 11957
  • When was it listed? January 2007
  • Category. building
  • Town. Southold town
  • When was it built? 1899
  • National Register reference number. 06001229 - 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

17 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Orient Point Light Station between 2005 and 2020, burning about 7 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

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
7 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
31 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 June 2011Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 May 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 May 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

5 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orient, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2015Thunderstorm WindOrient$7,500Trees and power lines were reported down throughout the Hamlet of Orient Point.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindOrient-A thunderstorm wind gust of 61 mph was reported at Orient Point mesonet at 15 ft above sea level.
June 2011Flash FloodOrient-Basement flooding occurred along Old Farm Rd. and at the Main St. pump house in Orient.
June 2008HailOrient-Quarter sized hail was reported in Orient.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindOrient-Large branches and a couple of trees reported down from Southold to Orient.

Every storm recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

12 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
Plum Island Light Station1.5 miles2011
Fort Terry Historic District1.8 miles2021
Terry-Mulford House2.9 miles1984
Orient Historic District4.5 miles1976
East Marion Main Road Historic District6.4 miles2019
Smith-Taylor Cabin7.4 miles2007

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 06001229 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.