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Photograph of Cherry Grove Community House and Theatre
Photograph by Leah Fallica, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Cherry Grove Community House and Theatre

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“The Cherry Grove Community House and Theatre is a historic building in Cherry Grove, New York. It played an important part in the development of Cherry Grove as an LGBT town.”

Wikipedia article Cherry Grove Community House and Theatre, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 180 Bayview Walk, Cherry Grove
  • When was it listed? June 2013
  • Category. building
  • Town. Brookhaven town
  • National Register reference number. 13000373 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

62 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Cherry Grove Community House and Theatre between 2001 and 2020, burning about 25 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/undetermined47
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking4
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2011Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Island National SeashoreCARRINGTON TRACT 02
7 August 2014Smoking1.1 acresFire Island National SeashoreCARRINGTON TRACT 01
29 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

14 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Carrington House0.7 miles2014
Point O'Woods Historic District2.2 miles2021
MODESTY (south-sider Sloop)4.2 miles2001
Priscilla (Long Island Sound Oyster Sloop)4.2 miles2006
Rudolph Oyster House4.2 miles2001
Edwards House, The5.0 miles2010

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 13000373 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Suffolk CountyAll 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.