Photograph of Fire Island Light — Photograph by Don Fick, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fire Island Light Station

Built in 1826. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“The Fire Island Lighthouse is a visible landmark on the Great South Bay, in southern Suffolk County, New York, on the western end of Fire Island, a barrier island off the southern coast of Long Island. The lighthouse is located within Fire Island National Seashore and just to the east of Robert Moses State Park.”
Wikipedia article Fire Island Lighthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 1981 · category: Structure · built in 1826.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Robert Moses Causeway, Bay Shore, 11706
When was it listed? September 1981
Category. structure
Town. Islip town
When was it built? 1826
National Register reference number. 81000082 - 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

11 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Fire Island Light Station between 2005 and 2019, burning about 5 acres in total. None 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/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	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
30 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 June 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 May 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 May 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.4 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 May 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire 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 coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1902 USGS Fire Island quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Fire Island quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1904 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000 - 5 printings
1942 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Bay Shore East quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Bay Shore East 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
1967 USGS Bay Shore East 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
Fire Island Light Station Historic District (Boundary Increase)	under 500 feet	2010
Point O'Woods Historic District	4.9 miles	2021
Wereholme	5.6 miles	2007
Sagtikos Manor	5.7 miles	1976
Rafael Jr. Guastavino House	6.0 miles	2013
John Mollenhauer House	6.3 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 81000082 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.