Temple of Israel Synagogue

Built in 1922. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.

From the record

“The Temple of Israel Synagogue is a historic former Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 88 Beach 84th Street, Rockaway, Queens, New York City, New York, United States. The synagogue was "built in 1921 to replace an earlier synagogue that was destroyed by fire." In 2002 the building was acquired by Haven Ministries and used as a non-denominational Pentecostal church.”
Wikipedia article Temple of Israel Synagogue (Queens), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 108 National Register listings published here for Queens County · listed in 2014 · category: Building · built in 1922.

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. 1-88 Beach 84th St., Rockaway Beach, 11693
When was it listed? February 2014
Category. building
Borough. Queens
When was it built? 1922
National Register reference number. 13001156 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

886 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 886 fires within 5 miles of Temple of Israel Synagogue between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,145 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 48 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	677
Arson/incendiarism	48
Natural	37
Smoking	29
Misuse of fire by a minor	25
Equipment and vehicle use	22
Recreation and ceremony	21
Debris and open burning	17
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
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.9 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Gateway National Recreation Area	DEADHORSES
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
Rockaway Courthouse	0.3 miles	2014
Richard Mott House	2.4 miles	2026
Far Rockaway Beach Bungalow Historic District	2.7 miles	2013
Trinity Chapel	3.2 miles	2002
US Post Office-Far Rockaway	3.2 miles	1988
Russell Sage Sage Memorial Church	3.5 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13001156 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.