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One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Mary Louise Booth Girlhood House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Booth, Mary Louise, Girlhood House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. E. Main St., Yaphank, 11980
- When was it listed? January 2015
- Category. building
- Town. Brookhaven town
- National Register reference number. 14001219 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
1,602 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,602 fires within 5 miles of Mary Louise Booth Girlhood House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,353 acres in total. 61 started naturally. 445 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 | 962 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 445 |
| Natural | 61 |
| Smoking | 41 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 35 |
| Debris and open burning | 19 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 18 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 13 |
| Fireworks | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| 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 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 9 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 7 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 7 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 7 September 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 7 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mary Louise Booth Girlhood 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roanoke Mabro Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Roanoke Marboro Sand and Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
8 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yaphank, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yaphank | $7,500 | Multiple trees were reported down along William Floyd Parkway, south of the entrance to Brookhaven National Lab, and north of the Long Island Expressway. |
| October 2018 | Lightning | Yaphank | $6,000 | Lightning strike reported by Broadcast Media. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yaphank | $4,000 | Trees down on Yaphank Middle Island Road near Main Street and on East Main Street near River Road. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yaphank | $3,000 | Trees and wires reported down on Raimond Street. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yaphank | $2,000 | Large tree limbs blocking westbound lane of Moriches Middle Island Road just east of the William Floyd Parkway. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yaphank | $1,000 | Wires were reported down on Yaphank Avenue in Yaphank. |
| August 2024 | Hail | Yaphank | - | NWS Employee measured nickel sized hail in Yaphank. |
| August 2006 | Flash Flood | Yaphank | - | 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.
- 1904 USGS Moriches quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Bellport quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Bellport quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Bellport quadrangle1:24000 - 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homan-Gerard House and Mills | under 500 feet | 1988 | |
 | St. Andrew's Episcopal Church | under 500 feet | 1988 |
 | Suffolk County Almshouse Barn | 0.7 miles | 1986 |
 | Robert Hawkins Homestead | 1.3 miles | 1986 |
 | Smith Estate | 2.2 miles | 1981 |
 | Middle Island Presbyterian Church | 3.9 miles | 2005 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 14001219 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.