Amagansett U.S. Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2018 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 160 Atlantic Ave., Amagansett, 11937
When was it listed? July 2018
Category. building
Also known as. U.S. Government Lifesaving Stations MPS
Town. East Hampton town
Architect. George R. Tolman
National Register reference number. 100002743 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

113 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Amagansett U.S. Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 69 acres in total. 8 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/undetermined	72
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Natural	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
5 September 2015	Debris and open burning	3.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
20 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
11 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
1 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Amagansett U.S. Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Bistrain Gravel Corporation Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Bistrian Gravel Corp Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amagansett, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2016	Lightning	Amagansett	$25,000	A house on the corner of Montauk Highway and Atlantic Avenue was struck by lightning, resulting in a fire. This was east of Amagansett.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Amagansett	$5,000	Multiple trees down around town in Amagansett NY.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Amagansett	-	At least one large tree downed in Amagansett.
October 2006	Flash Flood	Amagansett	-	Heavy rain produced flash flooding along Sunrise Highway in Amagansett.
August 2000	Flash Flood	Amagansett	-	no account filed

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.

1904 USGS East Hampton quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1904 USGS Easthampton quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1921 USGS Easthampton quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS East Hampton quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS East Hampton quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island East quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Pleasants House	0.8 miles	1984
Saint Thomas' Chapel	1.0 miles	1997
Miss Amelia's Cottage	1.0 miles	1994
Hayground Windmill	2.3 miles	1978
Pantigo Road Historic District	2.7 miles	1988
Egypt Lane Historic District	2.8 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100002743 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.
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.
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.