Photograph by Benson J Lossing, Public domain. Via
Wikimedia Commons.
Raynham Hall
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.
From the record
“Raynham Hall is in Oyster Bay, New York. Home of the Townsend family, one of the founding families of Oyster Bay, on Long Island, New York, and a member of George Washington's Culper Ring of spies, the house was renamed Raynham Hall after the Townsend seat in Norfolk, England, in 1850 by a grandson of the original owner.”
Wikipedia article Raynham Hall Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.74001264- 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
234 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 234 fires within 5 miles of Raynham Hall
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 121 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 28 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
103
Arson/incendiarism
28
Natural
28
Smoking
25
Power generation/transmission/distribution
21
Debris and open burning
12
Equipment and vehicle use
7
Recreation and ceremony
6
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Raynham Hall: 1 unknown.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten. 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
Oyster Bay, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.
Powerful airmass thunderstorms developed during the evening hours. Numerous trees and power lines were downed over Orange County. As the storms moved into northern Nassau County, violent winds downed more trees and power lines. At a festival in Oyster Bay a large tent, with about 70 people inside, was blown over.
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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