Jagger House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Jagger House is a historic home located at Westhampton in Suffolk County, New York. The house has two main components: the original, three-bay, section with a gambrel roof built about 1748, and a large 19th-century addition with a gable roof.”
Wikipedia article Jagger House, 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. Old Montauk Hwy., Westhampton, 11977
When was it listed? December 1978
Category. building
Town. Southampton town
National Register reference number. 78001920 - 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

191 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 191 fires within 5 miles of Jagger House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 94 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 26 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	133
Arson/incendiarism	26
Natural	10
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Debris and open burning	6
Smoking	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Other causes	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
30 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
30 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
25 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2010	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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Jagger House: 1 past producer. None of them 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
	East Quogue 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 Westhampton, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2012: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Westhampton	$4,000	Large branches were reported down throughout the Village of Westhampton, along with wires down on County Road 31.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Westhampton	$3,000	Trees and wires were reported down in Westhampton Beach.
September 1999	Flood	Westhampton	-	Heavy showers caused flooding of streets and low-lying poor drainage areas. Cars stalled and drivers were forced to abandon them in Southampton Village. Rainfall amounts ranged from 2.42 inches at Bridgehampton to 3.42 inches in Southampton.

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.

1903 USGS Riverhead quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Riverhead quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1943 USGS Riverhead quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Eastport quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Eastport quadrangle1:24000 - 2 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
Foster-Meeker House	1.8 miles	2009
US Post Office-Westhampton Beach	1.9 miles	1989
Crowther House	2.4 miles	1985
Quogue Cemetery	3.8 miles	2013
Quogue Historic District	3.8 miles	2016
Quogue Life-Saving Station	4.1 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78001920 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.