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Setauket Presbyterian Church and Burial Ground

Built in 1812. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Setauket Presbyterian Church and Burial Ground, also known as First Presbyterian Church of Brookhaven, is a historic Presbyterian church and cemetery at 5 Caroline Avenue in the hamlet of Setauket, New York, United States.”
Wikipedia article Setauket Presbyterian Church and Burial Ground, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1812.

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 sitess, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 5 Caroline Ave., Village of Setauket, Brookhaven, 11733
When was it listed? September 1996
Category. building
Town. Brookhaven town
When was it built? 1812
National Register reference number. 96001023 - 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

619 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 619 fires within 5 miles of Setauket Presbyterian Church and Burial Ground between 2000 and 2020, burning about 235 acres in total. 36 started naturally. 40 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	498
Arson/incendiarism	40
Natural	36
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Smoking	12
Debris and open burning	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	2

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 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not 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 Setauket Presbyterian Church and Burial Ground: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Lawrence Aviation Industries Plant	Titanium	Unknown
Port Jefferson Station B Plant	Titanium, Metal	Plant
Suffolk Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Suffolk Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Brookhaven	-	Mesonet site in Brookhaven NY measured a 53 knot wind gust.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Brookhaven	-	A 59 mph wind gust was reported.
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Brookhaven	-	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Brookhaven	-	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.

1902 USGS Setauket quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000 - 5 printings
1904 USGS Setauket quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1919 USGS Setauket quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000
1947 USGS Port Jefferson quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Port Jefferson quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Setauket quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Port Jefferson quadrangle1:24000
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
Caroline Church and Cemetery	under 500 feet	1991
Frank Melville Memorial Park	0.3 miles	2010
Brewster House	0.4 miles	2008
Bethel Christian Avenue Historic District	0.6 miles	2017
Thompson House	0.9 miles	1988
Benner-Foos-Ceparano Estate	1.1 miles	2016

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96001023 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.