Beaux Arts Park Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“Beaux Arts Park Historic District is a national historic district located at Huntington Bay in Suffolk County, New York. The district has nine contributing buildings and one contributing structure.”
Wikipedia article Beaux Arts Park Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 1985 · category: District.

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 9 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Locust Ln., Upper & Lower Drs., Huntington Bay, 11743
When was it listed? September 1985
Category. district
Also known as. Huntington Town MRA
Town. Huntington town
National Register reference number. 85002489 - 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

243 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 243 fires within 5 miles of Beaux Arts Park Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 125 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 52 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	128
Arson/incendiarism	52
Natural	22
Smoking	12
Debris and open burning	10
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4

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 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
21 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Beaux Arts Park Historic District: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	West Hills Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	West Hills Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

1901 USGS Northport quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Northport quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1904 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000 - 5 printings
1942 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Lloyd Harbor quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Lloyd Harbor quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West 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
A. P. W. Kennan House	0.2 miles	1985
Bay Crest Historic District	0.5 miles	1985
House at 200 Bay Avenue	0.6 miles	1985
John P. Kane Mansion	0.6 miles	1985
Charles Geoghegan House	0.8 miles	1985
East Shore Road Historic District	0.8 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85002489 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.
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.