Shinnecock Hills Golf Club

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Shinnecock Hills Golf Club is a links-style golf club located in the Shinnecock Hills section of Southampton, New York on Long Island, situated between the Peconic Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. Founded in 1891, it is one of the oldest golf clubs in the United States and was among the five charter clubs that formed the United States Golf Association (USGA) in 1894.”
Wikipedia article Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Bet. Cty Rd. and Sebonac Rd., Southampton, 11968
When was it listed? September 2000
Category. building
Town. Southampton town
Architectural style. bungalow
National Register reference number. 00001211 - 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

203 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 203 fires within 5 miles of Shinnecock Hills Golf Club between 1992 and 2016, burning about 95 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 28 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	148
Arson/incendiarism	28
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	4
Debris and open burning	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Southampton, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2016: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood. The reports record 4 injuries. 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
March 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Southampton	4 hurt	no account filed
February 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Southampton	$7,500	Multiple trees and power lines were reported down throughout the Town of Southampton.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Southampton	$5,000	Several trees were reported down across Southampton.
September 2006	Flash Flood	Southampton	-	no account filed
September 2006	Flash Flood	Southampton	-	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Southampton	-	no account filed
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Southampton	-	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Southampton	-	no account filed
July 1996	Flash Flood	Southampton	-	no account filed
October 1996	Flash Flood	Southampton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

11 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1903 USGS Sag Harbor quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Sag Harbor quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1947 USGS Southampton quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Southampton quadrangle1:24000 - 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 New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island East quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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
William Merritt Chase Homestead	1.7 miles	1983
James L. Breese House	2.3 miles	1980
North Main Street Historic District	2.6 miles	1986
Beach Road Historic District	2.7 miles	1986
Rogers Mansion Museum Complex	2.8 miles	2012
Dr. Wesley Bowers House	2.9 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00001211 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.
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.