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One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Corwith-Jones Farmhouse
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 248 Newlight Lane, Southampton, 11976
- When was it listed? December 2025
- Category. building
- Town. Southampton town
- National Register reference number. 100012370 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
130 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Corwith-Jones Farmhouse between 2000 and 2019, burning about 52 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 12 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 | 96 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 30 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 25 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 2 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 2 September 2006 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 2 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 18 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 13 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Corwith-Jones Farmhouse: 1 past producer. None of them 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Digate Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this property
10 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Southampton, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2016: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Southampton | 4 hurt | no account filed |
| February 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Southampton | $7,500 | Multiple trees and power lines were reported down throughout the Town of Southampton. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Southampton | $5,000 | Several trees were reported down across Southampton. |
| September 2006 | Flash Flood | Southampton | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Flash Flood | Southampton | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Southampton | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Southampton | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Southampton | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Flash Flood | Southampton | - | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Flash Flood | Southampton | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
11 surveysUnited 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 Sag Harbor quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Sag Harbor quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
- 1946 USGS Sag Harbor quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Sag Harbor quadrangle1:24000 - 2 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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | William Corwith House | 1.3 miles | 2013 |
 | Beebe Windmill | 1.4 miles | 1978 |
 | Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church | 1.4 miles | 2017 |
 | Nathaniel Rogers House | 1.6 miles | 2005 |
 | Windmill at Water Mill | 1.8 miles | 1978 |
 | Water Mill | 1.9 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100012370 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.
- 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.