Josiah Woodhull House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“The Josiah Woodhull House is a historic building. Built circa 1720 by the son of Richard Woodhull, the founder of Brookhaven Town.”
Wikipedia article Josiah Woodhull House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2011 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Woodhull, Josiah, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 170 North Country Rd., Shoreham, 11786
When was it listed? August 2011
Category. building
Town. Brookhaven town
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture, American colonial architecture
National Register reference number. 11000602 - 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

241 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 241 fires within 5 miles of Josiah Woodhull House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 333 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 59 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	142
Arson/incendiarism	59
Smoking	15
Natural	9
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 2002	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
5 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	6.6 acres	New York Forest Rangers	NEVILLE FIRE
4 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	SAMUEL'S FIRE
24 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shoreham, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2006 and 2015: 4 hail, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2006	Lightning	Shoreham	1 hurt	Lightning struck a 29-year-old woman while she was sitting with her family at Shoreham Town Beach. Her husband successfully performed CPR and revived her.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Shoreham	$6,000	Large trees were reported down across the intersection of Dartmouth and Valentine Roads.
May 2010	Hail	Shoreham	-	Quarter size hail was reported by a NWS employee.
May 2010	Hail	Shoreham	-	Penny size hail was reported by a NWS employee.
May 2010	Hail	Shoreham	-	Quarter size hail was reported by a trained spotter.
August 2015	Hail	Shoreham	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

10 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 Moriches quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Wading River quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Wading River quadrangle1:24000
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island East quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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
Benjamin King Woodhull House	1.0 miles	2008
Tuthill-Lapham House	1.0 miles	2009
Wading River Radio Station	1.6 miles	2018
Nikola Tesla's Laboratory	1.7 miles	2018
Noah Hallock House	3.6 miles	2013
Smith Estate	6.7 miles	1981

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000602 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.