Union Chapel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Union Chapel is a historic Methodist chapel located in Shelter Island Heights, Suffolk County, New York. It was built in 1875 and is a wood-frame structure with wood-shingle sheathing.”
Wikipedia article Union Chapel (Shelter Island Heights, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 1984 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. The Grove, Shelter Island Heights, 11965
When was it listed? November 1984
Category. building
Town. Shelter Island town
National Register reference number. 84000296 - 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

100 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Union Chapel between 2000 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 4 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	44
Natural	17
Debris and open burning	12
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Smoking	6
Arson/incendiarism	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
2 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 September 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1904 USGS Shelter Island quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1947 USGS Greenport quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Greenport quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1983 USGS New Haven 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
Shelter Island Heights Historic District	0.1 miles	1993
Shelter Island Country Club	0.4 miles	2009
Sylvester Manor	0.9 miles	2015
Greenport Railroad Station	1.1 miles	1989
Congregation Tifereth Israel Synagogue	1.2 miles	2006
Shelter Island Windmill	1.3 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84000296 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.