Thirty Mile Point Light

Built in 1876. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“Thirty Mile Point Light is a lighthouse on the south shore of Lake Ontario in Niagara County, New York. It is part of Golden Hill State Park, a New York state park.”
Wikipedia article Thirty Mile Point Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 99 National Register listings published here for Niagara County · listed in 1984 · category: District · built in 1876.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 structuress, 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Niagara River, Somerset, 14012
When was it listed? July 1984
Category. district
Also known as. U.S. Coast Guard Lighthouses and Light Stations on the Great Lakes TR
When was it built? 1876
National Register reference number. 84003922 - 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

31 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Thirty Mile Point Light between 2000 and 2019, burning about 18 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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	16
Arson/incendiarism	7
Debris and open burning	6
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
20 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 August 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 August 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 July 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Niagara County

Storms near this property

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Somerset, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
September 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Somerset	$15,000	A tree fell onto a garage in Barker.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Somerset	$10,000	Officials reported trees and wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2023	Flash Flood	Somerset	-	Multiple road closures were reported in the Somerset area due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Niagara County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1897 USGS Ridgeway quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1950 USGS Ridgeway quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Lyndonville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1952 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1979 USGS Lyndonville quadrangle1:25000
1984 USGS Lockport quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	District #10 Schoolhouse	6.4 miles	2000
	Amzi Bradley Farmstead	7.2 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84003922 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Niagara County	All 99 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.