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William Corwith House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2013 · 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. Corwith, William, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 2368 Montauk Hwy., Bridgehampton, 11932
  • When was it listed? July 2013
  • Category. building
  • Town. Southampton town
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 13000463 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

89 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of William Corwith House between 2000 and 2019, burning about 37 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined60
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural4
Debris and open burning3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
2 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Suffolk 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 William Corwith House: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Digate Concrete ProductsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Digate Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bridgehampton, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2019Thunderstorm WindBridgehampton$2,000Large trees down with time estimated by radar.
September 2013Flash FloodBridgehampton-A car became stuck in water on Montauk Highway in Sagaponak.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindBridgehampton-Thunderstorms moving across eastern Suffolk County generated winds sufficient to down numerous and large tree limbs. Some power lines were in turn brought down by the limbs.

Every storm recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church0.2 miles2017
Beebe Windmill0.3 miles1978
Nathaniel Rogers House0.3 miles2005
Corwith-Jones Farmhouse1.3 miles2025
Sagaponack Historic District1.7 miles2000
Thomas Strong House2.8 miles2005

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 13000463 in Record Group 79.
Suffolk CountyAll 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.