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One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
John Steinbeck Cottage
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 2 Bluff Point Lane, Sag Harbor, 11963
- When was it listed? August 2025
- Category. building
- Town. Southampton town
- National Register reference number. 100012103 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
92 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of John Steinbeck Cottage between 1995 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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 | 58 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 2 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 2 September 2006 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 2 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 17 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 10 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 5 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of John Steinbeck Cottage: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Digate Concrete Products | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Digate Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this property
2 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sag Harbor, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2016: 1 heavy rain, 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 | Sag Harbor | $25,000 | A house was struck by lightning on Union Street, between Madison and Division Streets in Sag Harbor, resulting in a fire. |
| July 2004 | Heavy Rain | Sag Harbor | - | 5.5" storm total. |
Maps showing this location
11 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.
- 1903 USGS Sag Harbor quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Sag Harbor quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
- 1946 USGS Sag Harbor quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Sag Harbor 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
- 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Long Island East quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Sag Harbor Village District | 0.8 miles | 1973 |
 | First Presbyterian Church | 0.8 miles | 1994 |
 | Sag Harbor Village District (Boundary Increase) | 1.1 miles | 1994 |
| Maycroft | 1.1 miles | 1995 | |
| Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest, and Ninevah Beach Subdivisions Historic District | 1.6 miles | 2019 | |
| William Cauldwell House | 3.4 miles | 2009 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100012103 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.