Wainscott Windmill

Built in 1813. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Wainscott Windmill is an historic windmill on Georgica Association grounds in Wainscott, New York in the Town of East Hampton. Georgica Association grounds are both within Wainscott and the Village of East Hampton to the east.”
Wikipedia article Wainscott Windmill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1813.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. On Georgica Association grounds, East Hampton, 11975
When was it listed? December 1978
Category. building
Also known as. Long Island Wind and Tide Mills TR
Town. East Hampton town
When was it built? 1813
National Register reference number. 78001915 - 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

83 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Wainscott Windmill between 2000 and 2019, burning about 27 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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	58
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Debris and open burning	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	2
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
22 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2006	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Wainscott Windmill: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bistrain Gravel Corporation Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bistrian Gravel Corp Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Digate Concrete Products	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Digate Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Hampton, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 3 lightning, 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 1998	Lightning	East Hampton	4 hurt	no account filed
November 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	East Hampton	$20,000	Numerous trees and power lines reported down.
September 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	East Hampton	$3,000	Trees were reported down in East Hampton Village.
July 2023	Flash Flood	East Hampton	-	N Main Street closed due to flooding between Collins Ave and Cedar Street.
July 2023	Flash Flood	East Hampton	-	Disabled vehicle trapped in flood waters in East Hampton.
July 2023	Flash Flood	East Hampton	-	Intersection of Collins Ave and N Main Street in East Hampton is underwater and impassible.
June 2011	Hail	East Hampton	-	no account filed
April 2000	Lightning	East Hampton	-	no account filed
February 1998	Lightning	East Hampton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

12 surveys

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.

1904 USGS East Hampton quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1904 USGS Easthampton quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1921 USGS Easthampton quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS East Hampton quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS East Hampton quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island East quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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
Thomas Strong House	0.8 miles	2005
Briar Patch Road Historic District	0.8 miles	1988
Jones Road Historic District	1.5 miles	1988
Jericho Historic District	1.6 miles	1988
Sagaponack Historic District	2.2 miles	2000
East Hampton Village Historic District (Boundary Increase)	2.6 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78001915 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.
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.