Fire Island Light Station: Cultural Landscapes Inventory, Fire Island National Seashore
NPS Northeast Regional Office. 2025. Fire Island Light Station: Cultural Landscapes Inventory, Fire Island National Seashore. Cultural Landscapes Inventory Report. 650008. National Park Service. NPS Northeast Regional Office, Boston, Massachusetts / CRIS-CL Database
Fire Island Light Station, located on Fire Island, is one of two cultural landscapes that have been identified within the boundaries of the Fire Island National Seashore. Fire Island is a 32-mile long and less than half-mile wide barrier beach located south of mainland Long Island with the Great South Bay to its north and the Atlantic Ocean to its south. The existing Lighthouse was built in 1858 at the western edge of Fire Island, but since that time littoral drift has continued to extend the western edge so that the present-day Lighthouse now sits nearly five miles east of the western border at Democrat Point.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- NPS Northeast Regional Office
- Date of Issue
- 2025
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- FIIS , NER
- Keywords
- Coast Guard Facility, Commerce, defense, Engineering, exhibit, historic site, hotel, Interpretive Landscape, lighthouse, Long Island, Maritime history, Museum, Naval Facility, New York, Outdoor Recreation, Recreation, Robert Moses State Park, Transportation, U.S. Coast Guard Station, U.S. Life-saving Service Station, U.S. Naval Radio Compass Station, Water-Related