Joshua Wells House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Joshua Wells House, also known as Wells-Fleet-Goldsmith-Kendrick House and 1680 House, is a historic home located at Cutchogue in Suffolk County, New York. It is a timber-framed residence constructed about 1680 and extensively remodeled in 1815.”
Wikipedia article Joshua Wells House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2002 · 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 as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Wells, Joshua, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 525 N. Suffolk Rd., Cutchogue, 11935
When was it listed? March 2002
Category. building
Town. Southold town
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 02000139 - 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

112 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Joshua Wells House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 12 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	59
Natural	14
Arson/incendiarism	12
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Debris and open burning	5
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2014	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
14 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
12 September 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
11 September 2005	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

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cutchogue, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2020: 2 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 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Cutchogue	$1,000	Large branch reported down.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	East Cutchogue	$1,000	Large tree limb down near Oregon Road and Bridge Lane.

Every storm recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1904 USGS Shelter Island quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Southold quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Southold quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1983 USGS New Haven 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
Old House, The	0.1 miles	1966
David Tuthill Farmstead	0.5 miles	1984
New Suffolk School	1.3 miles	2002
Jesse and Ira Tuthill House	2.0 miles	2006
Andrew Gildersleeve Octagonal Building	2.4 miles	1976
High House & Studio	2.6 miles	2025

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02000139 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.