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One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Old Field Point Light Station
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 207 Old Field Road, Setauket, 11733
- When was it listed? January 2024
- Category. building
- Also known as. Light Stations of the United States MPS
- Town. Brookhaven town
- National Register reference number. 100009784 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
238 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 238 fires within 5 miles of Old Field Point Light Station between 2000 and 2020, burning about 75 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 21 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 | 175 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 21 |
| Natural | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
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 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 5 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 28 September 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 27 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Old Field Point Light Station: 1 past producer, 1 plant, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Titanium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence Aviation Industries Plant | Titanium | Unknown | ||
| Port Jefferson Station B Plant | Titanium, Metal | Plant | ||
| Suffolk Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Suffolk Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
15 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Setauket, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 5 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Setauket | $15,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were reported down between Main Street and Bennets Road. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Setauket | $7,500 | A tree was reported down through a home on Settlers Way in Setauket. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Setauket | $3,000 | Large limb and wires down on the intersection of Old Field Road and Conscience Road in Setauket NY. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Setauket | $3,000 | Trees were reported down along Lower Sheep Pasture Road in Stony Brook. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Setauket | $2,000 | Downed wires from thunderstorm gust. |
| August 2024 | Flash Flood | South Setauket | - | Water rescue on North Country Road at Ridgeway Ave. |
| August 2024 | Flash Flood | East Setauket | - | Water rescue on Sheep Pasture Road at Locust Manor Court. |
| August 2024 | Flash Flood | East Setauket | - | Fire department dispatched to stranded motorist to perform a water rescue on N Belle Meade Road. |
| June 2009 | Hail | East Setauket | - | Ping-Pong ball size hail was reported in Setauket-East Setauket. |
| June 2009 | Hail | East Setauket | - | Quarter size hail was reported in Setauket-East Setauket. |
| August 2008 | Hail | East Setauket | - | Penny size hail was reported. |
| August 2008 | Hail | East Setauket | - | Quarter size hail was reported. |
| August 2008 | Hail | East Setauket | - | Half dollar size hail was reported covering the ground at Saint Georges Golf Course in East Setauket. |
| June 2008 | Funnel Cloud | South Setauket | - | A funnel cloud was spotted at the tail end of a thunderstorm over Long Island Sound about 3 miles North of Port Jefferson Harbor. |
| June 1998 | Lightning | Setauket | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
16 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.
- 1902 USGS Setauket quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000 - 5 printings
- 1904 USGS Setauket quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
- 1919 USGS Setauket quadrangle1:62500
- 1942 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000
- 1947 USGS Port Jefferson quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Port Jefferson quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Setauket quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Port Jefferson quadrangle1:24000
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Frank Melville Memorial Park | 1.9 miles | 2010 |
| Benner-Foos-Ceparano Estate | 1.9 miles | 2016 | |
 | Caroline Church and Cemetery | 2.1 miles | 1991 |
 | Setauket Presbyterian Church and Burial Ground | 2.2 miles | 1996 |
 | Brewster House | 2.3 miles | 2008 |
 | Bethel Christian Avenue Historic District | 2.4 miles | 2017 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009784 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.