Long Island National Cemetery

Built in 1936. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“Long Island National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Suffolk County, New York. It is surrounded by a group of other separate cemeteries and memorial parks situated along Wellwood Avenue - these include Pinelawn Memorial Park, St.”
Wikipedia article Long Island National Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2016 · category: District · built in 1936.

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

The listing

Address. 2040 Wellwood Ave., Farmingdale, 11798
When was it listed? March 2016
Category. district
Also known as. Inter-World War National Cemeteries, 1934-1939 MPS
Town. Babylon town
When was it built? 1936
National Register reference number. 16000113 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

945 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 945 fires within 5 miles of Long Island National Cemetery between 2000 and 2020, burning about 411 acres in total. 122 started naturally. 98 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	560
Natural	122
Arson/incendiarism	98
Smoking	53
Equipment and vehicle use	38
Debris and open burning	33
Railroad operations and maintenance	17
Power generation/transmission/distribution	15
Recreation and ceremony	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	3

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 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2010	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

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Long Island National Cemetery: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Thorium. 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
	Atomergic Chemetals/Plainview, N.Y.	Thorium	Unknown
	Controlled Castings/Plainview, N.Y.	Thorium	Unknown

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

14 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.

1901 USGS Northport quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Northport quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1904 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000 - 5 printings
1942 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000
1947 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
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
1967 USGS Huntington 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
M. Baylis House	2.7 miles	1985
Sweet Hollow Presbyterian Church Parsonage	2.9 miles	1985
John Everit House	3.0 miles	1985
John Rogers House	3.3 miles	1985
Sisters of St. Dominic Motherhouse Complex	3.5 miles	2007
Wallace K. Harrison Estate	4.4 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 16000113 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.