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Photograph of Hallock Homestead
Photograph by Americasroof, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Hallock Homestead

Built in 1765. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Hallock Homestead is a historic farm complex located at Northville in Suffolk County, New York. The farmstead includes five contributing buildings: the main house, barn, milk house, shop / wood house, and privy.”

Wikipedia article Hallock Homestead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1765.

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 5 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 163 Sound Ave., Northville, 11901
  • When was it listed? June 1984
  • Category. building
  • Town. Riverhead town
  • When was it built? 1765
  • National Register reference number. 84002992 - 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

161 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Hallock Homestead between 2000 and 2020, burning about 61 acres in total. 9 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/undetermined113
Arson/incendiarism15
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning4

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 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Northville, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 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
August 2016Flash FloodNorthville-A portion of Church Lane was closed due to flooding in Riverhead.

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.

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
Hallock-Bilunas Farmstead0.5 miles2003
Downs House and Farm0.9 miles2016
Southold Milestone 71.6 miles2017
Richard Cox House1.8 miles1986
Jamesport Meeting House2.2 miles2009
Jedediah Hawkins House2.3 miles2008

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84002992 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.
  • 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.