John S. Old Westbury Gardens-Phipps Estate (Boundary Increase)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. 13 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 2011 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Old Westbury Gardens--Phipps, John S., Estate (Boundary Increase) - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 71 Old Westbury Rd, Old Westbury, 11568
When was it listed? January 2011
Category. district
Town. North Hempstead town
National Register reference number. 10001124 - 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

998 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 998 fires within 5 miles of John S. Old Westbury Gardens-Phipps Estate (Boundary Increase) between 1993 and 2020, burning about 443 acres in total. 60 started naturally. 79 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	624
Smoking	115
Arson/incendiarism	79
Natural	60
Equipment and vehicle use	43
Power generation/transmission/distribution	33
Debris and open burning	21
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Recreation and ceremony	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
6 September 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2009	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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of John S. Old Westbury Gardens-Phipps Estate (Boundary Increase): 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Mccormack Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Port Washington Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Nassau County

Maps showing this location

13 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1897 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500 - 15 printings
1947 USGS Hicksville quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Hicksville quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Hicksville quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West 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 Westbury Gardens	0.1 miles	1976
A. Conger Goodyear House	1.8 miles	2003
Saint Mary's Chapel	1.8 miles	2005
Mackay Estate Dairyman's Cottage	2.3 miles	1991
East Williston Village Historic District	2.5 miles	1985
DuPont-Guest Estate	2.6 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10001124 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.