James Benjamin Homestead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“The James Benjamin Homestead is a historic home located at Flanders in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, United States.”
Wikipedia article James Benjamin Homestead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 1986 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Benjamin, James, Homestead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1182 Flanders Rd., Flanders, 11901
When was it listed? August 1986
Category. building
Town. Southampton town
National Register reference number. 86001510 - 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

440 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 440 fires within 5 miles of James Benjamin Homestead between 2000 and 2020, burning about 195 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 60 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	288
Arson/incendiarism	60
Natural	28
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Smoking	13
Recreation and ceremony	13
Debris and open burning	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Fireworks	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2018	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 James Benjamin Homestead: 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

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flanders, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1995 and 2001: 2 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
June 1995	Hail	Flanders	-	A cold front moving across the region generated severe thunderstorms. Although some of these storms generated strong winds, the main feature was large hail.
July 2001	Hail	Flanders	-	no account filed

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 Mattituck quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Mattituck quadrangle1:24000 - 4 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
Big Duck Ranch	0.4 miles	2008
Riverhead Main Street Historic District	2.5 miles	2012
Vail-Leavitt Music Hall	2.5 miles	1983
Second and Ostrander Historic District	2.5 miles	2017
US Post Office-Riverhead	2.6 miles	1989
Suffolk County Historical Society Building	3.0 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86001510 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.