Rockaway Courthouse

Built in 1931 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.

From the record

“Rockaway Courthouse is a historic courthouse located in the Rockaway Beach neighborhood of Queens County, New York. It was built in 1931, and is a three-story plus basement, steel frame and limestone, V-shaped building in the Classical Revival style.”
Wikipedia article Rockaway Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 108 National Register listings published here for Queens County · listed in 2014 · category: Building · built in 1931, Neoclassical architecture.

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. 90-01 Beach Channel Dr., Rockaway Beach
When was it listed? February 2014
Category. building
Borough. Queens
When was it built? 1931
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 13001155 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

1,011 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,011 fires within 5 miles of Rockaway Courthouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,344 acres in total. 45 started naturally. 55 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	774
Arson/incendiarism	55
Natural	45
Smoking	30
Misuse of fire by a minor	28
Equipment and vehicle use	25
Recreation and ceremony	23
Debris and open burning	21
Fireworks	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Other causes	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 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Gateway National Recreation Area	FOUNTAIN1
9 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Gateway National Recreation Area	CREEK19
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.9 acres	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
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Gateway National Recreation Area	DEADHORSES
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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

Every fire 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
Temple of Israel Synagogue	0.3 miles	2014
Richard Mott House	2.6 miles	2026
Far Rockaway Beach Bungalow Historic District	3.0 miles	2013
Jacob Riis Park Historic District	3.4 miles	1981
Trinity Chapel	3.5 miles	2002
US Post Office-Far Rockaway	3.5 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13001155 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.