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Marion Carll Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“Marion Carll Farm is a historic home and property located in Commack, Suffolk County, New York. It consists of the 1860 farmhouse, privy, garage, smokehouse, milk house, horse barn/carriage house, sheep barn, and four smaller barns.”

Wikipedia article Marion Carll Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Carll, Marion, Farm - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 475 Commack Rd., Commack, 11725
  • When was it listed? June 1979
  • Category. building
  • Town. Huntington town
  • Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 79001632 - 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

1,179 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,179 fires within 5 miles of Marion Carll Farm between 2000 and 2020, burning about 575 acres in total. 87 started naturally. 267 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/undetermined672
Arson/incendiarism267
Natural87
Smoking67
Equipment and vehicle use23
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Debris and open burning19
Power generation/transmission/distribution15
Recreation and ceremony9
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Marion Carll Farm: 5 producers, 3 past producers, 1 unknown. 5 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Express Way Aggregates, Nc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Indian Head PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
North East Mine, Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
North East Mines Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Park Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
R Rchleider Contracting Corp.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Schleider PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Schleider Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Split Rock MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

12 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Commack, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCommack$7,500Large tree snapped in half and fell onto two parked cars. The cars were not occupied.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindCommack$7,000Multiple trees and wires down from Northport to Commack.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindCommack$4,000Multiple trees down on Yates Avenue.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindCommack$4,000A large tree took down powerlines on Old Indian Head Road between Vance Street and Jericho Turnpike.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindCommack$3,000Trees down on Elder Drive and Cottonwood Drive.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindCommack$1,000Downed tree on Northern State Parkway westbound between Exit 43 at Commack Road and exit 42N at NY231.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindCommack$1,000A large branch and wires were reported down on Arnold Lane in Commack.
August 2024Flash FloodCommack-Water rescue due to stranded motorist in flood waters on Fisher Road.
September 2023Flash FloodCommack-Motorist stranded on Town Line Road. Dire Department responding.
August 2014Flash FloodCommack-Jericho Turnpike was closed in both directions in Commack due to flooding.
July 2008Flash FloodCommack-The Northern State Pkwy. was closed at exit 45 (Sagtikos Pkwy.) due to flooding.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindCommack-A spotter reported that several trees and power lines were knocked down by this storm.

Every storm recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

15 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
Commack Methodist Church and Cemetery1.3 miles1985
Seaman Farm1.7 miles1985
Carll S. Burr Mansion1.7 miles1985
Carll Burr Jr. House1.8 miles1985
Coltrane House2.4 miles2007
Carll House2.6 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79001632 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.