Photograph of United States Merchant Marine Academy — Photograph by United States Merchant Marine Academy, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

United Stated Merchant Marine Academy

Built in 1943. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

“The United States Merchant Marine Academy is a United States service academy in Kings Point, New York. It trains its midshipmen to serve as officers in the United States Merchant Marine, branches of the United States Armed Forces, and the transportation industry.”
Wikipedia article United States Merchant Marine Academy, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau County · listed in 2014 · category: District · built in 1943.

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

The listing

Address. 300 Steamboat Rd., Kings Point, 11024
When was it listed? August 2014
Category. district
Town. North Hempstead town
When was it built? 1943
National Register reference number. 14000538 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1891 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering United Stated Merchant Marine Academy, surveyed 1995

Topographic sheet covering United Stated Merchant Marine Academy, surveyed 1891

Fires near this property

1,042 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,042 fires within 5 miles of United Stated Merchant Marine Academy between 2000 and 2020, burning about 256 acres in total. 71 started naturally. 51 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	714
Natural	71
Smoking	69
Recreation and ceremony	53
Arson/incendiarism	51
Debris and open burning	33
Power generation/transmission/distribution	26
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
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 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2015	Natural	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Maps showing this location

15 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1891 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500
1897 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1898 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500 - 16 printings
1947 USGS Flushing quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Flushing 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
1966 USGS Flushing quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1995 USGS Flushing quadrangle1:24000

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
William Barstow Mansion	0.2 miles	2014
Stepping Stones Light Station	1.1 miles	2005
Saddle Rock Grist Mill	1.1 miles	1978
Grace and Thomaston Buildings	2.4 miles	1978
Grace and Thomaston Buildings	2.5 miles	1978
US Post Office-Great Neck	2.6 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000538 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nassau County	All 156 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.