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Miller Place Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Miller Place Historic District is a national historic district located at Miller Place in Suffolk County, New York. It encompasses a concentration of the rural vernacular architecture characteristic of Long Island from the mid-18th through late 19th century.”

Wikipedia article Miller Place Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 1976 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. N. Country Rd., Miller Place, 11764
  • When was it listed? June 1976
  • Category. district
  • Town. Brookhaven town
  • National Register reference number. 76001281 - 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

731 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 731 fires within 5 miles of Miller Place Historic District between 2000 and 2020, burning about 288 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 89 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/undetermined546
Arson/incendiarism89
Natural38
Smoking26
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use11
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Miller Place Historic District: 1 unknown, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lawrence Aviation Industries PlantTitaniumUnknown
Brookhaven Aggregates PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Brookhaven Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

8 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Miller Place, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2018Thunderstorm WindMiller Place$5,000Tree down on a car on Falmouth Drive.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindMiller Place$4,000Two large trees were reported down, blocking Wylde Road.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindMiller Place$2,000A tree fell down on a fence in Miller Place.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindMiller Place$750A tree was reported down on Shinnecock Drive in Sound Beach.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindMiller Place$500A large tree limb was reported down on Falmouth Drive.
August 2008HailMiller Place$500Up to 2 inches of hail was reported covering the ground, ranging from pea to golf ball in size.
August 2024Flash FloodMiller Place-Fire department responding to home with basement flooding with several feet of water.
August 2024Flash FloodMiller Place-Water rescue on Miller Place-Yaphank Road due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Noah Hallock House3.2 miles2013
Samuel Hopkins House3.4 miles2009
Port Jefferson Village Historic District3.6 miles2005
Bayles Shipyard3.6 miles2000
First National Bank of Port Jefferson3.7 miles2005
Sherwood-Jayne House4.8 miles2009

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76001281 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Suffolk CountyAll 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.
  • 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.