St. Johns Episcopal Church and Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Johns Episcopal Church and Cemetery is a historic Episcopal church and cemetery on Montauk Highway on the northeast side, about 300' northwest of the junction with Locust Avenue, Town of Islip in Oakdale, Suffolk County, New York. The church is a small, rectangular one story building with a gable roof, wood shingle siding, and a simple painted wood exterior trim.”
Wikipedia article St. Johns Episcopal Church and Cemetery (Oakdale, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 1994 · 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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Montauk Hwy. NE side, about 300' NW of the jct. with Locust Ave., Town of Islip, Oakdale, 11769
When was it listed? January 1994
Category. building
Town. Islip town
National Register reference number. 93001559 - 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

794 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 794 fires within 5 miles of St. Johns Episcopal Church and Cemetery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 590 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 101 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	609
Arson/incendiarism	101
Natural	30
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Smoking	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Debris and open burning	9
Recreation and ceremony	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge	NYWHR-FY20-WF-SAYVILLE 6
8 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge	NYWHR-FY20-WF-SAYVILLE 5
6 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

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 St. Johns Episcopal Church and Cemetery: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Nassau Clay Mine	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Nassau Clay Mine	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakdale, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2025	Flash Flood	Oakdale	-	Oakdale-Bohemia Roadd flooded. No cars can pass, cars stuck.
July 2008	Flash Flood	Oakdale	-	Some roads were impassable in Oakdale due to flooding.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakdale	-	A severe thunderstorm produced high winds that downed numerous trees in Oakdale.

Every storm recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

14 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.

1902 USGS Fire Island quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Fire Island quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1904 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000 - 5 printings
1942 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000
1947 USGS Sayville quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Sayville quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Sayville 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
Jacob Ockers House	0.4 miles	1992
Priscilla (Long Island Sound Oyster Sloop)	1.4 miles	2006
Rudolph Oyster House	1.4 miles	2001
MODESTY (south-sider Sloop)	1.4 miles	2001
Davis Field	1.7 miles	2008
Sayville Congregational Church	1.9 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93001559 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.
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.