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Photograph of Brooklyn Army Terminal
Photograph by Dennis from Нью-Йорк, Россия, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

U.S. Army Military Ocean Terminal

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“The Brooklyn Army Terminal (BAT) is a large warehouse complex in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York City. The site occupies more than 95 acres (38 ha) between 58th and 63rd Streets west of 2nd Avenue, on Brooklyn's western shore.”

Wikipedia article Brooklyn Army Terminal, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 207 National Register listings published here for Kings County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Address. 58th-65th St. and 2nd Ave., New York, 11220
  • When was it listed? September 1983
  • Category. building
  • Borough. Brooklyn
  • Architect. Cass Gilbert
  • National Register reference number. 83001702 - 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

1898 to 1986

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering U.S. Army Military Ocean Terminal, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet covering U.S. Army Military Ocean Terminal, surveyed 1898

Fires near this property

1,680 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,680 fires within 5 miles of U.S. Army Military Ocean Terminal between 1992 and 2020, burning about 727 acres in total. 130 started naturally. 139 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/undetermined1126
Arson/incendiarism139
Natural130
Smoking87
Debris and open burning63
Equipment and vehicle use51
Fireworks47
Recreation and ceremony14
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2

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
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Every fire recorded in Kings County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of U.S. Army Military Ocean Terminal: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
D Smith Steel/ Brooklyn, N.Y.IronUnknown
N L Industries/ Brooklyn. N.Y.LeadUnknown
Roosevelt Metal/ Brooklyn, N.Y.LeadUnknown

Every working recorded in Kings County

Maps showing this location

16 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

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83001702 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kings CountyAll 207 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.