Charles and Anna Bates House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. Bates, Charles and Anna, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 126 Center St., Greenport, 11944
When was it listed? August 2017
Category. building
Town. Southold town
National Register reference number. 100001490 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

96 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Charles and Anna Bates House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 5 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	45
Natural	15
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Debris and open burning	10
Smoking	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
7 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
2 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenport, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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	Greenport	$1,000	Tree reported down and blocking Willow Drive.
August 2018	Flash Flood	Greenport	-	Several roads were closed due to flooding in Greenport including the intersection of Front Street and First Street.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenport	-	A wind gust of 68 MPH was measured at a mesonet location in Greenport.
September 2015	Flash Flood	Greenport	-	The intersection of Front Street and First Street in Greenport was impassable.
June 2011	Flash Flood	Greenport	-	The intersection of South St. and 1st St. in Greenport was closed due to flooding.
February 1998	Lightning	Greenport	-	no account filed

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 Greenport quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Greenport 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
Greenport Village Historic District	under 500 feet	1984
Congregation Tifereth Israel Synagogue	0.3 miles	2006
Greenport Railroad Station	0.4 miles	1989
Brecknock Hall	0.8 miles	2005
Shelter Island Heights Historic District	1.4 miles	1993
Union Chapel	1.5 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100001490 in Record Group 79.
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.