BlockFrom the record
One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2010 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Fire Island Light Station Historic District (Boundary Increase)
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.
The listing
- Address. Burma Rd., Fire Island, 11706
- When was it listed? January 2010
- Category. district
- Also known as. Light Stations of the United States MPS
- Town. Islip town
- National Register reference number. 09001288 - 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
11 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Fire Island Light Station Historic District (Boundary Increase) between 2005 and 2019, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 24 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 19 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 June 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 8 May 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 May 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.4 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 23 May 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 15 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
Storms near this property
1 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fire Island, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Fire Island | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
14 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
- 1902 USGS Fire Island quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Fire Island quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
- 1904 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000 - 5 printings
- 1942 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000
- 1944 USGS Bay Shore East quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Bay Shore East 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
- 1967 USGS Bay Shore East quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Fire Island Light Station | under 500 feet | 1981 |
| Point O'Woods Historic District | 4.9 miles | 2021 | |
 | Wereholme | 5.7 miles | 2007 |
 | Sagtikos Manor | 5.8 miles | 1976 |
| Rafael Jr. Guastavino House | 6.1 miles | 2013 | |
| John Mollenhauer House | 6.4 miles | 2014 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 09001288 in Record Group 79. |
| Suffolk County | All 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.