Far Rockaway Beach Bungalow Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.

From the record

“Far Rockaway Beach Bungalow Historic District is a historic area in Far Rockaway, Queens County, New York. It includes summer beach bungalows near the oceanfront of Far Rockaway, first brought to the area by developer John J.”
Wikipedia article Far Rockaway Beach Bungalow Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 108 National Register listings published here for Queens County · listed in 2013 · category: District.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 100 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Beach 24th, Beach 25th & Beach 26th Sts., Queens, 11691
When was it listed? July 2013
Category. district
Borough. Queens
National Register reference number. 13000499 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

434 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 434 fires within 5 miles of Far Rockaway Beach Bungalow Historic District between 1993 and 2020, burning about 320 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 24 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	304
Arson/incendiarism	24
Misuse of fire by a minor	24
Natural	24
Smoking	23
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Debris and open burning	13
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
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
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.9 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.9 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
6 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Gateway National Recreation Area	WILDLIFE

Every fire recorded in Queens County

Storms near this property

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Queens, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 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 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Queens	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Queens County

Maps showing this location

15 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.

1889 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
1891 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
1897 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1898 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1947 USGS Far Rockaway quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Far Rockaway quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 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 Far Rockaway quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West 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
Trinity Chapel	0.6 miles	2002
US Post Office-Far Rockaway	0.7 miles	1988
Richard Mott House	0.9 miles	2026
Russell Sage Sage Memorial Church	1.1 miles	1986
Temple of Israel Synagogue	2.7 miles	2014
Rockaway Courthouse	3.0 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000499 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Queens County	All 108 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.