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One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2021 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Point O'Woods Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.
The listing
- Address. Point O'Woods, Bay, and Ridge Aves., Church St., Point O'Woods, 11706
- When was it listed? July 2021
- Category. district
- Town. Brookhaven town
- National Register reference number. 100006763 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
20 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Point O'Woods Historic District between 2005 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. 1 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 | 14 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 10 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Island National Seashore | CARRINGTON TRACT 02 |
| 7 August 2014 | Smoking | 1.1 acres | Fire Island National Seashore | CARRINGTON TRACT 01 |
| 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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Cherry Grove Community House and Theatre | 2.2 miles | 2013 |
 | Carrington House | 2.9 miles | 2014 |
 | Fire Island Light Station | 4.9 miles | 1981 |
| Fire Island Light Station Historic District (Boundary Increase) | 4.9 miles | 2010 | |
 | MODESTY (south-sider Sloop) | 5.2 miles | 2001 |
 | Priscilla (Long Island Sound Oyster Sloop) | 5.2 miles | 2006 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100006763 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.