BlockFrom the record
One of 50 National Register listings published here for Chautauqua County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Dunkirk Light
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Dunkirk Harbor, Dunkirk, 14048
- When was it listed? July 1984
- Category. building
- Also known as. U.S. Coast Guard Lighthouses and Light Stations on the Great Lakes TR
- National Register reference number. 84002067 - 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
210 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 210 fires within 5 miles of Dunkirk Light between 2000 and 2020, burning about 80 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 34 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 | 116 |
| Debris and open burning | 35 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 34 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 9 September 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 5 September 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 25 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 22 September 2016 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 17 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dunkirk Light: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allegheny Ludlum/ Dunkirk, N.Y. | Iron | Plant |
Storms near this property
31 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dunkirk, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 17 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 5 flash flood, 1 heavy snow. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1999 | Heavy Snow | Dunkirk | $150,000 | no account filed |
| November 1999 | Flash Flood | Dunkirk | $100,000 | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunkirk | $45,000 | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunkirk | $35,000 | An early morning thunderstorm brought high winds to the county. The thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines. In Cassadaga, a large uprooted tree crushed a pickup truck. |
| November 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunkirk | $25,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew off the storage door to a gas station garage. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunkirk | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunkirk | $15,000 | no account filed |
| November 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunkirk | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Dunkirk | $15,000 | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Flash Flood | Dunkirk | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Dunkirk | $15,000 | no account filed |
| January 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunkirk | $12,000 | no account filed |
| September 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunkirk | $10,000 | Law enforcement reported trees down by thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Dunkirk | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunkirk | $10,000 | no account filed |
| October 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunkirk | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunkirk | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunkirk | $8,000 | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Dunkirk | $8,000 | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Flash Flood | Dunkirk | $5,000 | Significant flooding of the Chautauqua County Fairgrounds, closing Waldorff Road. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Dunkirk | $5,000 | no account filed |
| November 2005 | Hail | Dunkirk | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunkirk | $3,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunkirk | $2,500 | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunkirk | $2,000 | Multiple trees were downed. |
| July 2021 | Flood | Dunkirk | - | Minor flooding was reported on Waldorf Road. |
| July 2018 | Heavy Rain | Dunkirk | - | Rainfall total of 3.77 inches in 24 hours. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunkirk | - | no account filed |
| April 2019 | Hail | Dunkirk | - | no account filed |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunkirk | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Dunkirk | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
8 surveysUnited 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.
- 1900 USGS Dunkirk quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
- 1943 USGS Dunkirk quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Dunkirk quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Buffalo quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
Listed places nearby
5 within 8 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Point Gratiot Lighthouse Complex | under 500 feet | 1979 |
 | US Post Office-Dunkirk | 1.3 miles | 1988 |
 | School No. 7 | 1.9 miles | 1992 |
 | US Post Office-Fredonia | 3.8 miles | 1988 |
 | Fredonia Commons Historic District | 3.9 miles | 1978 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 84002067 in Record Group 79. |
| Chautauqua County | All 50 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.
- 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.