John Oakley House

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

From the record

“John Oakley House is a historic home located at West Hills in Suffolk County, New York. It is a six-bay, gable-roofed dwelling with a 1-story, one-bay, gable-roofed west wing and one-bay, shed-roofed east wing.”
Wikipedia article John Oakley 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

Listed as. Oakley, John, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Sweet Hollow Rd., West Hills, 11743
When was it listed? November 1985
Category. building
Also known as. Huntington Town MRA
Town. Huntington town
National Register reference number. 85003501 - 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

352 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 352 fires within 5 miles of John Oakley House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 191 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 63 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	199
Arson/incendiarism	63
Natural	37
Smoking	17
Debris and open burning	13
Power generation/transmission/distribution	9
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
7 September 2013	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	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 2014	Smoking	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 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

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 John Oakley House: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Atomergic Chemetals/Plainview, N.Y.	Thorium	Unknown
	Controlled Castings/Plainview, N.Y.	Thorium	Unknown

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Hills, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2019: 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2019	Flash Flood	West Hills	-	West Hills Road was flooded by the intersection with Chichester Road in West Hills with cars stalled in the deep water.
August 2017	Flash Flood	West Hills	-	A car was stuck in water at the intersection of West Hills Road and Chichester Road in West Hills.

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 middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, 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 Huntington quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 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 Huntington 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
Chichester's Inn	under 500 feet	1985
Joseph Whitman House	0.1 miles	1985
Whitman-Place House	0.3 miles	1985
Halsey Estate-Tallwood	0.5 miles	1985
Walt Whitman House	0.7 miles	1985
Jacob Smith House	0.9 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85003501 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.