Horatio Gates Onderdonk House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“The Horatio Gates Onderdonk House is a historic home in Strathmore, New York, an unincorporated hamlet in the Town of North Hempstead in Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, United States”
Wikipedia article Horatio Gates Onderdonk House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau County · listed in 1980 · 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.
Listed as. Onderdonk, Horatio Gates, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1471 Northern Blvd., Manhasset, 11030
When was it listed? April 1980
Category. building
Town. North Hempstead town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 80002661 - 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

790 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 790 fires within 5 miles of Horatio Gates Onderdonk House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 267 acres in total. 60 started naturally. 61 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	492
Arson/incendiarism	61
Natural	60
Smoking	58
Recreation and ceremony	36
Power generation/transmission/distribution	32
Debris and open burning	22
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Nassau 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 Horatio Gates Onderdonk House: 3 past producers, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Mccormack Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Port Washington Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Port Washington Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Port Washington Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this property

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manhasset, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 flood, 1 hail. 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
April 2014	Flood	Manhasset	$16,000	The heavy rain caused a mudslide that partially buried two cars in the parking lot at six Harbor Park Drive in Port Washington. Another mudslide on Bay Ave. near 16th Ave. in Sea Cliff resulted in the evacuation of two homes after a retaining wall overlooking Hempstead Harbor collapsed taking the backyard and patio of one residents home with it. Property damage amount is estimated. Storm total rainfall amounts reported across the county ranged from 2.37 inches in Reynolds Channel to 5.82 inches in Roslyn Heights.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Manhasset	$15,000	Numerous trees were reported down across roads in Manhasset.
July 2019	Lightning	Manhasset	$6,000	In Flower Hill section of Port Washington a house went on fire from a lightning strike.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Manhasset	$3,000	Trees reported down in Flower Hill.
August 2022	Flash Flood	Manhasset	-	Vehicle stuck in high water with two occupants trapped on Park Avenue.
July 2019	Flash Flood	Manhasset	-	Nassau County Traffic Management reported that Port Washington Boulevard (NY 101) was closed due to flooding in Flower Hill between Northern Boulevard (NY 25A) and Crabapple Road.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Manhasset	-	A 60 MPH wind gust was estimated near Manhasset Bay.
August 2008	Flash Flood	Manhasset	-	Cars were stranded in high water with water rescuses being performed in Roslyn.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Manhasset	-	Local police reported that several large tree limbs were knocked down by this storm.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Manhasset	-	Thunderstorms downed numerous trees and power lines.
July 2008	Hail	Manhasset	-	no account filed
August 2001	Flood	Manhasset	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nassau 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.

1897 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500 - 15 printings
1947 USGS Sea Cliff quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Sea Cliff 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
1968 USGS Sea Cliff 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
Manhasset Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends	0.1 miles	2009
North Hempstead Town Hall	0.4 miles	2006
Almeron and Olive Smith House	1.0 miles	2006
Valley Road Historic District	1.5 miles	1977
Sands-Willets Homestead	1.6 miles	1985
US Post Office-Great Neck	1.7 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002661 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nassau County	All 156 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.