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Pagan-Fletcher House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“Pagan-Fletcher House is a historic home located at Valley Stream in Nassau County, New York. It was built c. 1840 and is a two-story, clapboard-sided dwelling, five bays wide with a shallow central portico.”

Wikipedia article Pagan-Fletcher House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau County · listed in 1983 · 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. 127 Hendrickson Ave., Valley Stream, 11580
  • When was it listed? September 1983
  • Category. building
  • Town. Hempstead town
  • Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 83001715 - 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

1,418 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,418 fires within 5 miles of Pagan-Fletcher House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 479 acres in total. 73 started naturally. 150 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/undetermined879
Arson/incendiarism150
Smoking114
Natural73
Power generation/transmission/distribution61
Equipment and vehicle use48
Misuse of fire by a minor35
Debris and open burning28
Recreation and ceremony27
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2015Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Nassau 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 Pagan-Fletcher House: 1 producer. All of them 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
Bay Shore PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this property

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Valley Stream, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 5 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2016Thunderstorm WindValley Stream$3,000Multiple trees and large branches were reported down throughout Valley Stream.
January 2024Flash FloodValley Stream-Flower Road near Forest Road Elementary school closed due to flooding.
June 2007Flash FloodValley Stream-Multiple streets flooded.
September 2004Flash FloodValley Stream-Torrential rains flooded the Sunrise Highway, resulting in closure.
August 2002Flash FloodValley Stream-Torrential rain caused significant urban flooding from Valley Stream to Rockville Center. In Valley Stream, water ponded up to 2 1/2 feet deep in low lying areas.
January 1999Flash FloodValley Stream-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nassau County

Maps showing this location

14 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83001715 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nassau CountyAll 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.