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Photograph of Windmill at Water Mill
Photograph by Roger Rowlett, CC BY-SA 2.5. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Windmill at Water Mill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Corwith Windmill at Water Mill is a historic mill on NY 27 and Halsey Lane in Southampton, New York.”

Wikipedia article Windmill at Water 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. NY 27 and Halsey Lane, Southampton, 11976
  • When was it listed? December 1978
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Long Island Wind and Tide Mills TR
  • Town. Southampton town
  • National Register reference number. 78001919 - 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

159 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Windmill at Water Mill between 1992 and 2019, burning about 67 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined115
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural7
Smoking4
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Southampton, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2016: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2000Thunderstorm WindSouthampton4 hurtno account filed
February 2016Thunderstorm WindSouthampton$7,500Multiple trees and power lines were reported down throughout the Town of Southampton.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindSouthampton$5,000Several trees were reported down across Southampton.
September 2006Flash FloodSouthampton-no account filed
September 2006Flash FloodSouthampton-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindSouthampton-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindSouthampton-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindSouthampton-no account filed
July 1996Flash FloodSouthampton-no account filed
October 1996Flash FloodSouthampton-no account filed

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 coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, 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
Water Mill0.1 miles1983
Rosemary Lodge1.7 miles2000
Corwith-Jones Farmhouse1.8 miles2025
Capt. C. Goodale House1.9 miles1986
Wickapogue Road Historic District2.0 miles1986
North Main Street Historic District2.1 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78001919 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.
  • 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.