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Photograph of Davis Town Meeting House
Photograph by DanTD, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Davis Town Meeting House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“The Davis Town Meeting House is a historic building located in Coram, New York, United States. For most of the 19th century, it served as the town meeting place for the Town of Brookhaven.”

Wikipedia article Davis Town Meeting House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.

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 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Jct. of Middle Country Rd. and Coram-Mt. Sinai Rd., Coram, 11727
  • When was it listed? August 2001
  • Category. building
  • Town. Brookhaven town
  • National Register reference number. 01000850 - 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

1,695 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,695 fires within 5 miles of Davis Town Meeting House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,207 acres in total. 63 started naturally. 368 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/undetermined1137
Arson/incendiarism368
Natural63
Smoking50
Debris and open burning31
Equipment and vehicle use17
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Recreation and ceremony9
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Other causes2

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 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder 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 Davis Town Meeting House: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Brookhaven Aggregates PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Brookhaven Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Roanoke Mabro Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Roanoke Marboro Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coram, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2024Flash FloodCoram-Fire department being dispatched to a stranded motorist to perform a water rescue on Daryl Drive at Mooney Pond Road.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindCoram-A large tree branch was reported down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCoram-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 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
Middle Island Presbyterian Church1.1 miles2005
Samuel Hopkins House2.9 miles2009
Smith Estate4.1 miles1981
Bald Hill Schoolhouse4.5 miles1988
Mary Louise Booth Girlhood House4.7 miles2015
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church4.7 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 01000850 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.