Elmwood

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“Elmwood, also known as "The Cliffs," is a historic home located at Oyster Bay in Nassau County, New York. It was built in 1836 for New York merchant Thomas F.”
Wikipedia article Elmwood (Oyster Bay, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. E side of Cove Rd., Oyster Bay, 11771
When was it listed? April 1975
Category. building
Town. Oyster Bay town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 75001200 - 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

293 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 293 fires within 5 miles of Elmwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 147 acres in total. 48 started naturally. 55 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	131
Arson/incendiarism	55
Natural	48
Smoking	14
Power generation/transmission/distribution	13
Debris and open burning	12
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
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
8 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2013	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2014	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this property

7 since 1994

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Oyster Bay	$5,000	Trees were reported down throughout town.
September 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Oyster Bay	$1,000	Tree down on Mill River Road with cones put in place around tree.
July 2005	Flash Flood	Oyster Bay	-	Flash flooding of streets.
July 2003	Flash Flood	Oyster Bay	-	The Nassau County Office of Emergency Management reported flooding near Oyster Bay High School.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Oyster Bay	-	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.
December 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Oyster Bay	-	no account filed
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Oyster Bay	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nassau County

Maps showing this location

14 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.

1901 USGS Northport quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Northport quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1904 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000 - 5 printings
1942 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000
1947 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Huntington 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
Edward H. Swan House	0.8 miles	1976
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site	1.3 miles	1966
James Alfred Roosevelt Estate	1.4 miles	1979
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Historic District	1.5 miles	1994
Moore's Building	1.7 miles	1996
Christ Church	1.7 miles	2018

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75001200 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.
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.