Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.
From the record
“Sweet Hollow Presbyterian Church Parsonage is a historic Presbyterian church parsonage at 152 Old Country Road in Melville, Suffolk County, New York. It was built about 1830 and is a five-bay, gable-roofed residence.”
Wikipedia article Sweet Hollow Presbyterian Church Parsonage, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.85002541- 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
598 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 598 fires within 5 miles of Sweet Hollow Presbyterian Church Parsonage
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 287 acres in total. 64 started naturally. 66 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
336
Arson/incendiarism
66
Natural
64
Smoking
45
Debris and open burning
32
Equipment and vehicle use
25
Power generation/transmission/distribution
14
Railroad operations and maintenance
11
Misuse of fire by a minor
4
Recreation and ceremony
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Sweet Hollow Presbyterian Church Parsonage: 2 unknowns.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Thorium. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Huntington, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 9 thunderstorm wind, 8 flash flood, 3 hail, 1 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.
A spotter reported an estimated 58 MPH wind gust near the intersection of Route 110 and Jericho Turnpike near Huntington at 6:30 pm. Police reported that strong winds knocked down several trees and power lines in Northport and Melville at 6:40 pm.
A squall line developed in a very warm and unstable airmass during the late afternoon hours. Numerous reports of pea- and marble-size hail were received along with several observations of 3/4 inch hail. No damage was reported with any of this events.
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.
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.
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.
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