Van Wyck-Lefferts Tide Mill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“Van Wyck-Lefferts Tide Mill is a historic tide mill located at Lloyd Harbor in Suffolk County, New York. It was built about 1793 and is a gable-roofed, timber-framed rectangular building little altered since the early 19th century.”
Wikipedia article Van Wyck-Lefferts Tide Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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. 2 mi. NE of Mill and Southdown Rds., Lloyd Harbor, 11743
When was it listed? December 1978
Category. building
Also known as. Long Island Wind and Tide Mills TR
Town. Huntington town
National Register reference number. 78001916 - 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

190 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 190 fires within 5 miles of Van Wyck-Lefferts Tide Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 108 acres in total. 23 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	97
Arson/incendiarism	40
Natural	23
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
7 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
21 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
17 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Long Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex	TARGRKBCH

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Van Wyck-Lefferts Tide Mill: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	West Hills Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	West Hills Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lloyd Harbor, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
September 2021	Flash Flood	Lloyd Harbor	$3,230,000	Flash flooding resulted in an estimated $3,234,712 in damages across Suffolk County. This estimate is based on FEMA grant money awarded under the Individuals and Household Program (IHP), which includes funds for both housing assistance and other needs.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Lloyd Harbor	$1,000	A tree was reported down on Soundcrest Lane.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Lloyd Harbor	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

1901 USGS Northport quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Northport quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1904 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000 - 5 printings
1942 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Lloyd Harbor 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 Lloyd Harbor 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
George McKesson Brown Estate-Coindre Hall	0.5 miles	1985
Karpen House	0.6 miles	2006
Gilsey Mansion	0.6 miles	1985
Charles Homer Davis House	0.7 miles	2006
Silas Sammis House	1.0 miles	1985
John Green House	1.0 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78001916 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.