Hallock-Bilunas Farmstead

Built in 1880. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Hallock-Bilunas Farmstead is a historic farm complex located at Jamesport in Suffolk County, New York. The farmstead includes seven contributing buildings: the farmhouse, barns, sheds, workshops, and other accessory structures.”
Wikipedia article Hallock-Bilunas Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2003 · category: Building · built in 1880.

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 7 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Hallock--Bilunas Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 733 Herricks Ln., Jamesport, 11901
When was it listed? April 2003
Category. building
Town. Riverhead town
When was it built? 1880
National Register reference number. 03000251 - 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

181 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 181 fires within 5 miles of Hallock-Bilunas Farmstead between 2000 and 2020, burning about 72 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 16 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	128
Arson/incendiarism	16
Natural	10
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Smoking	7
Debris and open burning	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
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
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
3 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
23 September 2010	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

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jamesport, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2010: 3 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 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Jamesport	$20,000	Numerous trees were reported down from Jamesport to Mattituck, including a 30 foot wide swath of trees near the North Fork Preserve, sending a tree limb through a roof in Northville, and a 100 foot pine snapping in half.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Jamesport	$7,500	Multiple trees were reported down in the town of Jamestown.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Jamesport	$1,000	Wires were reported down on Manor Lane just west of Jamesport.

Every storm recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

1903 USGS Riverhead quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Riverhead quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1943 USGS Riverhead quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Mattituck quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Mattituck quadrangle1:24000 - 4 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
Downs House and Farm	0.4 miles	2016
Hallock Homestead	0.5 miles	1984
Southold Milestone 7	1.7 miles	2017
Jamesport Meeting House	1.9 miles	2009
Jedediah Hawkins House	2.0 miles	2008
Daniel and Henry P. Tuthill Farm	2.1 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000251 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.