Built in 1795 (American colonial architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.
From the record
“Denton Homestead is a historic home located at East Rockaway in Nassau County, New York. It was built as a tavern about 1795, and is a five-bay, center-hall-plan, vernacular Colonial style frame dwelling.”
Wikipedia article Denton Homestead, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau County · listed in 2014 · category: Building · built in 1795, American colonial architecture.
Architectural style. American colonial architecture
National Register reference number. 14000913 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
857 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 857 fires within 5 miles of Denton Homestead
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 342 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 105 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
541
Arson/incendiarism
105
Smoking
73
Power generation/transmission/distribution
44
Natural
30
Misuse of fire by a minor
25
Equipment and vehicle use
20
Debris and open burning
12
Recreation and ceremony
6
Other causes
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Denton Homestead: 1 occurrence.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Wollastonite, Garnet. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
East Rockaway, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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.
East Rockaway Ave. was completely submerged in one foot of flowing water. In Long Beach, a pedestrian was stuck nearly waist deep in a sinkhole at the intersection of Roosevelt Blvd. and Park Avenue. In addition, there was one foot of flowing water at the intersection of Walnut St. and Roosevelt Blvd. with stranded motorists.
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.
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.
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.
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