Mills Pond District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Mills Pond District is a national historic district located at St. The district includes nine contributing buildings.”
Wikipedia article Mills Pond District (St. James, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 1973 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. W of St. James on NY 25A, St. James, 11780
When was it listed? August 1973
Category. district
Town. Smithtown town
National Register reference number. 73001277 - 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

651 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 651 fires within 5 miles of Mills Pond District between 2000 and 2020, burning about 262 acres in total. 63 started naturally. 63 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	462
Natural	63
Arson/incendiarism	63
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Debris and open burning	13
Smoking	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Recreation and ceremony	4

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 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Mills Pond District: 3 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal. 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
Port Jefferson Station B Plant	Titanium, Metal	Plant
Smithtown Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Smithtown Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Suffolk Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Suffolk Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

16 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.

1902 USGS Setauket quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000 - 5 printings
1904 USGS Setauket quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1919 USGS Setauket quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000
1947 USGS St James quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Saint James quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Setauket quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Saint James 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
William Sydney Mount House	0.8 miles	1966
Nathaniel Longbotham House	0.9 miles	1989
Stony Brook Grist Mill	0.9 miles	1990
Thatch Meadow Farm	0.9 miles	2020
East Farm	0.9 miles	1993
St. James Chapel	1.0 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73001277 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.
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.