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Photograph of Caroline Church and Cemetery
Photograph by Doug Kerr from Upstate New York, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Caroline Church and Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Caroline Church and Cemetery is a historic Episcopal church and cemetery and also a national historic district at the junction of Dyke and Bates Roads in Setauket, Suffolk County, New York. The church was built in 1729 and is a three-by-four-bay, heavy timber-framed, 42 by 30 foot building sheathed in wood shingles and covered by a gable roof.”

Wikipedia article Caroline Church and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 1991 · 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 2 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Jct. of Dyke and Bates Rds., Brookhaven, 11733
  • When was it listed? September 1991
  • Category. district
  • Town. Brookhaven town
  • National Register reference number. 91001148 - 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

590 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 590 fires within 5 miles of Caroline Church and Cemetery between 2000 and 2020, burning about 220 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 37 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/undetermined474
Arson/incendiarism37
Natural34
Equipment and vehicle use17
Smoking12
Debris and open burning6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Caroline Church and Cemetery: 1 past producer, 1 plant, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lawrence Aviation Industries PlantTitaniumUnknown
Port Jefferson Station B PlantTitanium, MetalPlant
Suffolk Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Suffolk Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brookhaven, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind. 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 2023Thunderstorm WindBrookhaven-Mesonet site in Brookhaven NY measured a 53 knot wind gust.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindBrookhaven-A 59 mph wind gust was reported.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindBrookhaven-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindBrookhaven-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

16 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.

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
Setauket Presbyterian Church and Burial Groundunder 500 feet1996
Frank Melville Memorial Park0.2 miles2010
Brewster House0.5 miles2008
Bethel Christian Avenue Historic District0.6 miles2017
Thompson House1.0 miles1988
Benner-Foos-Ceparano Estate1.1 miles2016

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91001148 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.
  • 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.