Built in 1912 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.
From the record
“The Benson House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Wading River Radio Station, is a three-story, red-shingled wood-frame home in Wading River, New York, situated on the North Shore of Long Island, on a 150-foot-high (46 m) bluff overlooking Long Island Sound. From 1942 until 1945 it housed an important World War II counterintelligence operation, designed to deceive Germany and Japan about Allied war plans.”
Wikipedia article Benson House (Wading River, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2018 · category: Building · built in 1912, Colonial Revival architecture.
National Register reference number. 100002389 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
144 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Wading River Radio Station
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 294 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 31 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
85
Arson/incendiarism
31
Smoking
9
Natural
9
Recreation and ceremony
4
Debris and open burning
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Wading River, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning.
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.
A current of water to the top of tires was flowing over the road at the intersection of Route 25A and Wading River Manor Road in Wading River. Some vehicles were unable to pass through the intersection.
An off-duty National Weather Service employee reported penny size hail in Wading River at 830 pm. At 835 pm, nickle size hail was observed at the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Upton.
Pea-size hail accompanied a thunderstorm complex as it moved across Suffolk county late at night. The one exception to this small hail occurred in Wading River where one-half to three-quarters inch hail was observed for a brief time.
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.
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.
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.
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