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Photograph of John Coltrane Home
Photograph by Muncharelli, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Coltrane House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“The John Coltrane Home is a ranch house in Dix Hills, New York, where jazz saxophonist John Coltrane lived with his family from 1964 until his death in 1967. Coltrane composed his album A Love Supreme, widely considered his magnum opus, in his practice room in the house.”

Wikipedia article John Coltrane Home, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2007 · 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.
  • Address. 247 Candlewood Path, Dix Hills, 11717
  • When was it listed? June 2007
  • Category. building
  • Town. Islip town
  • National Register reference number. 07000628 - 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

1,446 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,446 fires within 5 miles of Coltrane House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 717 acres in total. 113 started naturally. 388 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/undetermined752
Arson/incendiarism388
Natural113
Smoking85
Equipment and vehicle use29
Misuse of fire by a minor26
Debris and open burning26
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Recreation and ceremony10
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2018Arson/incendiarism3.1 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Coltrane House: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Nassau Clay MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Nassau Clay MineClayPast Producer
Express Way Aggregates, Nc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kings Park PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Split Rock MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dix Hills, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2009: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2009Thunderstorm WindDix Hills$1,000Law Enforcement reported that trees and wires were downed by strong winds.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindDix Hills-A spotter reported several trees were knocked down by this storm.

Every storm recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

15 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
Modern Times School1.7 miles1994
Sisters of St. Joseph Motherhouse, Brentwood2.3 miles2018
Marion Carll Farm2.4 miles1979
Seaman Farm2.8 miles1985
Commack Methodist Church and Cemetery3.4 miles1985
Blydenburgh Park Historic District3.7 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 07000628 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.