ELVIRA (sloop)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2012 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Newey Ln., Brookhaven, 11719
When was it listed? May 2012
Category. structure
Town. Brookhaven town
National Register reference number. 12000288 - 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

1,046 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,046 fires within 5 miles of ELVIRA (sloop) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,030 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 353 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	526
Arson/incendiarism	353
Smoking	52
Natural	34
Equipment and vehicle use	31
Misuse of fire by a minor	20
Debris and open burning	13
Recreation and ceremony	8
Fireworks	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
7 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
7 September 2014	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

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brookhaven, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind. 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 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Brookhaven	-	Mesonet site in Brookhaven NY measured a 53 knot wind gust.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Brookhaven	-	A 59 mph wind gust was reported.
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Brookhaven	-	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Brookhaven	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1904 USGS Moriches quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Bellport quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Bellport quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Bellport quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island East quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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
Bellport Village Historic District	2.3 miles	1980
Bellport Academy	2.4 miles	1980
Robert Hawkins Homestead	3.3 miles	1986
Suffolk County Almshouse Barn	4.0 miles	1986
William Floyd House	4.1 miles	1980
Smith-Rourke House	4.3 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12000288 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.