John Philip Sousa House

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“The John Philip Sousa House - also known historically as Wildbank - is a historic house at 12 Hicks Lane in Sands Point, New York, United States, overlooking Manhasset Bay.”
Wikipedia article John Philip Sousa House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau County · listed in 1966 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Sousa, John Philip, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 14 Hicks Lane, Sands Point, Port Washington, 11050
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. building
Town. North Hempstead town
National Register reference number. 66000532 - 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

428 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 428 fires within 5 miles of John Philip Sousa House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 146 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 30 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	257
Arson/incendiarism	30
Natural	30
Recreation and ceremony	29
Smoking	27
Power generation/transmission/distribution	23
Debris and open burning	15
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
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 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2015	Natural	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
7 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of John Philip Sousa House: 3 past producers, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Mccormack Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Port Washington Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Port Washington Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Port Washington Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this property

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Washington, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2003: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2003	Hail	Port Washington	-	A trained spotter reported penny size hail in Port Washington at 727 pm.
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Washington	-	A hot, moist and unstable airmass covering the area contributed to the formation of thunderstorms. Some of these produced winds strong enough to down several trees and power lines.
May 2002	Hail	Port Washington	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nassau County

Maps showing this location

13 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1897 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500 - 15 printings
1947 USGS Sea Cliff quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Sea Cliff 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
1968 USGS Sea Cliff quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 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
Sands Family Cemetery	1.0 miles	1992
Main Street School	2.0 miles	1983
William Landsberg House	2.0 miles	2014
Gould-Guggenheim Estate	2.2 miles	2006
Thomas Dodge Homestead	2.4 miles	1986
Execution Rocks Light Station	2.4 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000532 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nassau County	All 156 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.