Crowther House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Crowther House is a historic home located at Westhampton Beach in Suffolk County, New York. It is a large, two-story wood-frame house in the Shingle Style and built in 1910.”
Wikipedia article Crowther House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 1985 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 97 Beach Lane, Westhampton Beach, 11978
When was it listed? March 1985
Category. building
Town. Southampton town
Architectural style. Shingle style architecture
National Register reference number. 85000630 - 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

120 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Crowther House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 10 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	89
Arson/incendiarism	10
Natural	6
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	1
Fireworks	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
4 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2015	Fireworks	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	SPINNEY FIRE
7 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
6 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.6 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Crowther House: 1 past producer, 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	East Quogue Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	East Quogue Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westhampton Beach, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2019: 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
May 2019	Hail	Westhampton Beach	-	Hail of 1 inch in diameter reported.

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.

1903 USGS Riverhead quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Riverhead quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1943 USGS Riverhead quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Eastport quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Eastport 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
US Post Office-Westhampton Beach	0.5 miles	1989
Foster-Meeker House	0.8 miles	2009
Quogue Life-Saving Station	1.8 miles	1999
Quogue Historic District	1.8 miles	2016
Quogue Cemetery	1.8 miles	2013
Jagger House	2.4 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000630 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.
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.