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Photograph of Grace Church Complex
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Grace Church Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“The Grace Church Complex is a historic Episcopal church complex in Massapequa, Nassau County, New York. The complex consists of the church, surrounding parish cemetery, the Floyd-Jones family cemetery, and the DeLancey Floyd-Jones Free Library.”

Wikipedia article Grace Church Complex (Massapequa, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Merrick and Dover Rds., Massapequa, 11758
  • When was it listed? June 1983
  • Category. building
  • Town. Oyster Bay town
  • National Register reference number. 83001713 - 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

1901 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Grace Church Complex, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Grace Church Complex, surveyed 1901

Fires near this property

1,203 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,203 fires within 5 miles of Grace Church Complex between 2000 and 2020, burning about 482 acres in total. 62 started naturally. 102 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/undetermined873
Arson/incendiarism102
Smoking69
Natural62
Railroad operations and maintenance26
Equipment and vehicle use23
Power generation/transmission/distribution19
Debris and open burning16
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2010Missing 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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2007Missing 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 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this property

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Massapequa, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2010: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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 1997Thunderstorm WindNorth Massapequa1 hurtno account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindNorth Massapequa$4,000Trees and wires were reported down in North Massapequa.
June 2010HailNorth Massapequa-Quarter size hail was reported on Hyman Drive in Farmingdale.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindMassapequa-Trees were downed. One fell on a car.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindMassapequa-no account filed
September 1998Thunderstorm WindMassapequa-no account filed
August 1997HailNorth Massapequa-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindNorth Massapequa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nassau County

Maps showing this location

16 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.

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 83001713 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nassau CountyAll 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.
  • 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.