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Photograph of Greenport Village Historic District
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Greenport Village Historic District

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

From the record

“Greenport Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Greenport in Suffolk County, New York. It contains a large, dense collection of largely unchanged structures from about 1750 to the 1930s.”

Wikipedia article Greenport Village Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 1984 · category: District.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

95 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Greenport Village Historic District between 2000 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined45
Natural15
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning10
Smoking6
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
7 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 September 2010Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenport, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2020Thunderstorm WindGreenport$1,000Tree reported down and blocking Willow Drive.
August 2018Flash FloodGreenport-Several roads were closed due to flooding in Greenport including the intersection of Front Street and First Street.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindGreenport-A wind gust of 68 MPH was measured at a mesonet location in Greenport.
September 2015Flash FloodGreenport-The intersection of Front Street and First Street in Greenport was impassable.
June 2011Flash FloodGreenport-The intersection of South St. and 1st St. in Greenport was closed due to flooding.
February 1998LightningGreenport-no account filed

Every storm 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 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Charles and Anna Bates Houseunder 500 feet2017
Congregation Tifereth Israel Synagogue0.4 miles2006
Greenport Railroad Station0.4 miles1989
Brecknock Hall0.8 miles2005
Shelter Island Heights Historic District1.5 miles1993
Union Chapel1.5 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84002973 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Suffolk CountyAll 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.
  • 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.