N. Velzer House and Caretaker's Cottage

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“Velzer House and Caretaker's Cottage is a historic home and cottage located at Centerport in Suffolk County, New York. The house is a three-bay clapboard structure flanked by two-bay, gable-roofed wings.”
Wikipedia article N. Velzer House and Caretaker's Cottage, 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Velzer, N., House and Caretaker's Cottage - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 22 Fort Salonga Rd., Centerport, 11721
When was it listed? September 1985
Category. building
Also known as. Huntington Town MRA
Town. Huntington town
National Register reference number. 85002546 - 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

407 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 407 fires within 5 miles of N. Velzer House and Caretaker's Cottage between 1992 and 2020, burning about 210 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 69 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	252
Arson/incendiarism	69
Natural	26
Smoking	18
Debris and open burning	16
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
Other causes	2

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 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2005	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 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of N. Velzer House and Caretaker's Cottage: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
North East Mine, Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
West Hills Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
West Hills Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Centerport, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2004 and 2021: 2 hail, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Centerport	$15,000	Photos shared on social media show deck collapse and several tree branches snapped. Time estimated by radar.
August 2008	Hail	Centerport	-	Penny size hail was reported at the Fire Station on Park Circle in Centerport.
July 2007	Hail	Centerport	-	Penny size hail measured at Vanderbilt Museum.
September 2004	Flash Flood	Centerport	-	Numerous streets closed due to flash flooding.

Every storm recorded in Suffolk 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.

1901 USGS Northport quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Northport quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1904 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000 - 5 printings
1942 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000
1947 USGS Northport quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Northport 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
1967 USGS Northport quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 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
John Harned House	0.2 miles	1985
Suydam House	0.2 miles	1988
Dove, Arthur-Torr, Helen, Cottage	0.5 miles	2000
LITTLE JENNIE (Chesapeake Bay bugeye)	0.8 miles	1986
Charles Van Iderstine Mansion	1.2 miles	1985
US Post Office-Northport	1.3 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85002546 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.