Matinecock Friends Meetinghouse

Built in 1725. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“Matinecock Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house located on the northwest corner of Piping Rock and Duck Pond Roads within the Incorporated Village of Matinecock, in Nassau County, New York, United States.”
Wikipedia article Matinecock Friends Meetinghouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · built in 1725.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Piping Rock and Duck Pond Rds., Locust Valley, 11560
When was it listed? July 1976
Category. building
Town. Oyster Bay town
When was it built? 1725
National Register reference number. 76001231 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

251 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 251 fires within 5 miles of Matinecock Friends Meetinghouse between 2000 and 2020, burning about 106 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 24 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	115
Smoking	45
Arson/incendiarism	24
Power generation/transmission/distribution	22
Natural	17
Debris and open burning	12
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	5

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
8 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 September 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Matinecock Friends Meetinghouse: 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tungsten. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
L I Tungsten Corp/ Glen Cove, N.Y.	Tungsten	Unknown
Mccormack Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Port Washington Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Port Washington Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Port Washington Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Nassau County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

1897 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500 - 15 printings
1947 USGS Hicksville quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Hicksville 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 Hicksville quadrangle1:24000 - 3 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
Cock-Cornelius House	0.6 miles	2006
Schmidlapp-Humes Estate Historic District	1.4 miles	2020
Justice Court Building	1.7 miles	1990
Glen Cove Post Office	1.8 miles	2010
Sea Cliff Railroad Station	1.9 miles	1988
Planting Fields Arboretum	1.9 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76001231 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.
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.