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US Post Office-Far Rockaway

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.

From the record

“US Post Office-Far Rockaway is a historic post office building located at Far Rockaway in Queens County, New York, United States. It was built in 1935, and is one of six post offices in New York State designed by architect Eric Kebbon as a consultant to the Office of the Supervising Architect.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Far Rockaway, Queens), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 108 National Register listings published here for Queens County · listed in 1988 · 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.
Listed as. US Post Office--Far Rockaway - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 18-36 Mott Ave., New York, 11691
When was it listed? November 1988
Category. building
Also known as. US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
Borough. Queens
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 88002500 - 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

530 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 530 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Far Rockaway between 1993 and 2020, burning about 355 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 33 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	359
Misuse of fire by a minor	34
Arson/incendiarism	33
Natural	33
Smoking	30
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Debris and open burning	15
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.9 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.9 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Queens County

Maps showing this location

15 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.

1889 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
1891 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
1897 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1898 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1947 USGS Far Rockaway quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Far Rockaway quadrangle1:24000
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
1969 USGS Far Rockaway 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
Trinity Chapel	under 500 feet	2002
Russell Sage Sage Memorial Church	0.5 miles	1986
Far Rockaway Beach Bungalow Historic District	0.7 miles	2013
Richard Mott House	1.0 miles	2026
Trans World Airlines Flight Center	3.2 miles	2005
Temple of Israel Synagogue	3.2 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002500 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Queens County	All 108 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.