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One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2013 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Quogue Cemetery
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 58 Lamb Ave., Quogue, 11959
- When was it listed? December 2013
- Category. site
- Also known as. Cemeteries of the Town of Southampton, 1640-1930
- Town. Southampton town
- National Register reference number. 13000914 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
124 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Quogue Cemetery between 2000 and 2020, burning about 62 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 12 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 | 90 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 25 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 20 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 17 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 August 2015 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | SPINNEY FIRE |
| 7 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 6 August 2005 | 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 Quogue Cemetery: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Quogue Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| East Quogue Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this property
5 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quogue, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 2 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 rip current, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2004 | Rip Current | East Quogue | 1 killed | A persistent south to southwest wind helped to generate rough seas on the ocean on Tuesday the 20th. These rough seas acted to help produce rip currents along the South Shore of Long Island. A 12-year old boy swimming in the surf at Dolphin Beach in East Quogue was caught in a rip current Tuesday evening. The boy was not able to swim out of it...and unfortunately he drowned. His brother was swimming in the general area as well...and was rescued. |
| September 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Quogue | $20,000 | Numerous large trees down, including a very large Oak Tree split near its base along with a metal fence blown down behind tennis courts and outdoor scaffolding bent and blown down. |
| July 2023 | Flash Flood | East Quogue | - | Video shows impassible roadway due to flooding in East Quogue. |
| September 2013 | Flash Flood | East Quogue | - | Old Country Rd. at Lewis Rd. in East Quogue was closed due to flooding. |
| August 1998 | Flood | East Quogue | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
12 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 Riverhead quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Riverhead quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
- 1943 USGS Riverhead quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Quogue quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Quogue 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Quogue Historic District | 0.1 miles | 2016 |
 | Quogue Life-Saving Station | 0.8 miles | 1999 |
 | Crowther House | 1.8 miles | 1985 |
 | US Post Office-Westhampton Beach | 2.0 miles | 1989 |
 | Foster-Meeker House | 2.1 miles | 2009 |
| Jagger House | 3.8 miles | 1978 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 13000914 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.