Photograph of Rock Island Light — Photograph by Oralrobert33, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Rock Island Light Station

Built in 1848. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 5 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Rock Island Light is a lighthouse on Rock Island in the Saint Lawrence River in Jefferson County, New York, United States. The island is owned by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation and operated as Rock Island Lighthouse State Park.”
Wikipedia article Rock Island Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 144 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1848.

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 6 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. N of Fishers Landing on Rock Island, Fishers Landing, 13640
When was it listed? November 1978
Category. building
Town. Orleans town
When was it built? 1848
National Register reference number. 78001855 - 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

98 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Rock Island Light Station between 2002 and 2020, burning about 63 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 17 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	63
Arson/incendiarism	17
Natural	11
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Debris and open burning	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Rock Island Light Station: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Limestone, General. 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
Acton Island Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Clayton Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Flick Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
La Fargville Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Maps showing this location

5 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.

1903 USGS Grindstone quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1943 USGS Thousand Island Park quadrangle1:31680
1954 USGS Kingston quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Thousand Island Park quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1985 USGS Cape Vincent 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
Methodist-Protestant Church at Fisher's Landing	0.5 miles	1996
Thousand Island Park Historic District	0.7 miles	2022
A. Newton Farm	2.2 miles	1997
Methodist Episcopal Church	2.4 miles	1996
Thousand Island Grange Hall	2.6 miles	1996
George T. Robinson House	2.7 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78001855 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 144 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.