Water Mill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“The Water Mill Museum is a historic water mill and local history museum located at 41 Old Mill Road, Water Mill in Suffolk County, New York, USA. It is a 2-story, heavy wood-frame structure with a wood-shingle exterior and composed of two building sections.”
Wikipedia article Water Mill (Water Mill, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Old Mill Rd., Water Mill, 11976
When was it listed? October 1983
Category. building
Town. Southampton town
National Register reference number. 83004175 - 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

158 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Water Mill between 1992 and 2019, burning about 65 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined	115
Arson/incendiarism	15
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	6
Smoking	4
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2006	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Water Mill, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2001: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Water Mill	-	As the severe thunderstorm continued southeast across Southampton, it produced high winds that damaged trees along its path from Mill Pond to Water Mill to Sagaponack. In Mill Pond, several large trees were blown down along Head of the Pond Road, and both upper and lower Seven Ponds Road. In Sagaponack, tree damage occurred near Daniels and Gibson Lanes, before the storm moved over the Atlantic coastal waters.

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.

1903 USGS Sag Harbor quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Sag Harbor quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1946 USGS Sag Harbor quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Sag Harbor 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
Windmill at Water Mill	0.1 miles	1978
Rosemary Lodge	1.6 miles	2000
Capt. C. Goodale House	1.8 miles	1986
Wickapogue Road Historic District	1.9 miles	1986
Corwith-Jones Farmhouse	1.9 miles	2025
North Main Street Historic District	2.0 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83004175 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.
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.