Built in 1767 (Georgian architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.
From the record
“Rock Hall is a historic house museum and park owned and operated by the Town of Hempstead, located within Lawrence, a village in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, United States.”
Wikipedia article Rock Hall (Lawrence, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · built in 1767, Georgian architecture.
National Register reference number.76001230- 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
617 since 1995
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 617 fires within 5 miles of Rock Hall
between 1995 and 2020, burning about 395 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 40 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
426
Smoking
41
Arson/incendiarism
40
Misuse of fire by a minor
35
Natural
34
Equipment and vehicle use
14
Debris and open burning
14
Power generation/transmission/distribution
9
Recreation and ceremony
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 National Weather Service names
Lawrence, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 lightning.
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.
In South Hempstead, a car was stranded in two to three feet of water at exit 20S of the Southern State Pkwy. In Wantagh, the intersection of Park Ave. and Beech St. was closed due to flooding. In addition, two vehicles were trapped in flood waters at the intersection of Sunrise Hwy. and Seaford Avenue. The road was closed by local authorities. Several vehicles were completely submerged at the Central Ave. and Southern State Pkwy. interchange in Lawrence requiring local firefighters to respond to the scene. Another motorist was rescued from his vehicle by local firefighters on Meadow Ln. also in Lawrence. The Southern State Pkwy. was closed due to flooding between exits 14 and 16. Storm total rainfall reports in Nassau County ranged from 3.63 inches in Muttontown to 10.87 inches in Lido Beach.
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.
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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