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One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Swan River Schoolhouse
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 31 Roe Ave., East Patchogue, 11772
- When was it listed? August 2017
- Category. building
- Town. Brookhaven town
- Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
- National Register reference number. 100001492 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
1,422 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,422 fires within 5 miles of Swan River Schoolhouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 803 acres in total. 48 started naturally. 219 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 | 1035 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 219 |
| Natural | 48 |
| Smoking | 40 |
| Debris and open burning | 25 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 21 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 18 |
| Fireworks | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
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 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 9 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 7 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 7 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 7 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Storms near this property
1 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Patchogue, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1998: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1998 | Hail | East Patchogue | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
11 surveysUnited 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.
- 1904 USGS Moriches quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Bellport quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Bellport quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Bellport quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Long Island East quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Smith-Rourke House | 0.6 miles | 1989 |
 | United Methodist Church | 0.7 miles | 1984 |
 | St. Paul's Episcopal Church Complex | 1.0 miles | 1995 |
 | US Post Office-Patchogue | 1.2 miles | 1989 |
 | Congregational Church of Patchogue | 1.3 miles | 1993 |
 | Union Savings Bank | 1.4 miles | 2010 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100001492 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.