Photograph of Plum Island Light — Photograph by USCoastGuard, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Plum Island Light Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Plum Island Light is located on the western end of Plum Island, which lies in the Long Island Sound, east of Orient Point at the end of the North Fork of Long Island, New York. A historic granite lighthouse originally built in 1869 sits at the site, but no longer serves as an active aid to navigation.”
Wikipedia article Plum Island Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2011 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. N.W. corner of Plum Island, Orient Point, 11957
When was it listed? February 2011
Category. building
Also known as. Light Stations of the United States MPS
Town. Southold town
National Register reference number. 11000014 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

11 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Plum Island Light Station between 2005 and 2019, burning about 1 acre in total. 1 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	6
Arson/incendiarism	3
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
9 November 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 November 2013	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
31 October 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire 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.

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

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
Fort Terry Historic District	0.6 miles	2021
Orient Point Light Station	1.5 miles	2007
Terry-Mulford House	4.2 miles	1984
Orient Historic District	5.8 miles	1976
East Marion Main Road Historic District	7.8 miles	2019
Gardiners Island Windmill	7.9 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000014 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.