Fort Terry Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2021 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Plum Island, Southold, 11957
When was it listed? March 2021
Category. district
Town. Southold town
National Register reference number. 100006315 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

8 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Fort Terry Historic District between 2005 and 2015, burning about 1 acre in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	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
16 August 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 June 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 May 2005	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 May 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 March 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
31 October 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 October 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 October 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Southold, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning, 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
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Southold	$7,500	Numerous trees and wires were reported down across town.
September 2000	Tornado (F1)	Southold	-	As a line of thunderstorms and heavy showers moved southeast, one cell spawned a short-lived tornado in the town of Southold on the North Fork of Long Island.The National Weather Service conducted a storm survey and confirmed the occurrence of a weak tornado in the Nassau Point area of Little Hog Neck. This tornado was classified as an F1 with wind speeds estimated from 80 to 100 mph.The weak tornado first touched down in the back yard of three homes on the west side of Nassau Point Road around 6:20 am EDT. Then it moved through the front yard of one of the homes, where it did its' greatest damage. Most of the damage was to trees. Many trees had numerous branches twisted off and several trees were snapped off and deposited a good distance from where they grew. Slight structural damage was done to the roof of the house.The tornado crossed over to the east side of Nassau Point Road and apparently lifted as it moved across Hog Neck Bay. It touched down again in Bayview (on the other side of Hog Neck Bay) around 6:40 am EDT. Two eyewitnesses on Rambler Road experienced very strong winds, which uprooted trees and damaged several pieces of heavy lawn furniture. In this vicinity, the tornado was classified as an F0, with an approximate path length of 0.1 miles and average path width of 10 yards.
September 2006	Flash Flood	Southold	-	no account filed
August 2003	Flash Flood	Southold	-	no account filed
December 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Southold	-	no account filed
February 1998	Lightning	Southold	-	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 middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1903 USGS Gardiners Island quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Gardiners Island quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1921 USGS Gardiners Island quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Plum Island quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Plum Island quadrangle1:25000
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Plum Island quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1983 USGS New Haven quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

5 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
Plum Island Light Station	0.6 miles	2011
Orient Point Light Station	1.8 miles	2007
Terry-Mulford House	4.6 miles	1984
Orient Historic District	6.2 miles	1976
Gardiners Island Windmill	7.3 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100006315 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.