BlockBefore
Photograph of Montauk Association Historic District
Photograph by The original uploader was Americasroof at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 2.5. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Montauk Association Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“The Montauk Association Historic District is a 100-acre (40 ha) historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It is a complex of large Shingle style cottages for wealthy New York City families' summer use, designed by McKim, Mead and White within a site plan designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1881.”

Wikipedia article Montauk Association Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 1976 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. E of Montauk off NY 27 on DeForest Rd., Montauk, 11954
  • When was it listed? October 1976
  • Category. district
  • Town. East Hampton town
  • Architect. Frederick Law Olmsted
  • National Register reference number. 76001282 - 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.

Then and now

1904 to 1984

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Montauk Association Historic District, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet covering Montauk Association Historic District, surveyed 1904

Fires near this property

49 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Montauk Association Historic District between 2005 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. 5 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined21
Debris and open burning18
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 August 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Montauk, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 1 rip current, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 deaths. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2002Rip CurrentMontauk2 killedno account filed
August 2024Flash FloodMontauk-Road closed at N Shore Road and 2nd House Road in Montauk due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

Listed places nearby

5 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
AN/FPS-35 Radar Tower and Antenna2.1 miles2002
Montauk Manor2.3 miles1984
Montauk Tennis Auditorium2.4 miles1988
Caleb Bragg Estate2.5 miles1987
Montauk Point Lighthouse3.2 miles1969

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76001282 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Suffolk CountyAll 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.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.