George Sumner Kellogg House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Kellogg, George Sumner, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 960 Merrick Rd., Baldwin, 11510
When was it listed? August 2017
Category. building
Town. Hempstead town
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 100001486 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1897 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering George Sumner Kellogg House, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet covering George Sumner Kellogg House, surveyed 1897

Fires near this property

797 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 797 fires within 5 miles of George Sumner Kellogg House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 337 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 87 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	512
Smoking	88
Arson/incendiarism	87
Power generation/transmission/distribution	31
Natural	26
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Debris and open burning	11
Recreation and ceremony	5
Other causes	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
8 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2001	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	NA
5 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of George Sumner Kellogg House: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Wollastonite, Garnet. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Deershead	Wollastonite, Garnet	Occurrence	Wollastonite

Every working recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this property

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baldwin, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Baldwin	$7,000	Large tree limb fell down onto SUV causing damage on Atlantic Avenue in Oceanside.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Baldwin	$1,000	Tree down on Lincoln Avenue at Aldred Avenue reported by Nassau County Traffic Management.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Baldwin	$1,000	Power lines were reported down on Rockaway Avenue in Oceanside.
August 2018	Flash Flood	Baldwin	-	Intersections in the village of Rockville Center were under moving water.
July 2016	Flash Flood	Baldwin	-	Foxhurst Road in Oceanside was impassable due to flooding.
August 2010	Flash Flood	Baldwin	-	A vehicle became stuck in flood waters on Long Beach Rd. between Sunrise Hwy. and Merrick Rd. in Rockville Centre. The occupant of the vehicle was rescued by the local fire department.
June 2004	Flash Flood	Baldwin	-	Torrential rains resulted in flash flooding of several streets in Baldwin.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Baldwin	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nassau 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.

1897 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1947 USGS Freeport quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Freeport quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS Freeport quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1994 USGS Freeport quadrangle1:24000

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
US Post Office-Freeport	1.2 miles	1989
US Post Office-Rockville Centre	2.0 miles	1989
House at 474 Ocean Avenue	2.6 miles	2008
Rockville Cemetery and Bristol and Mexico Monument	2.7 miles	2015
Haviland-Davison Grist Mill	2.9 miles	1998
Denton Homestead	2.9 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100001486 in Record Group 79.
Nassau County	All 156 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.