Village of Branch Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Village of the Branch Historic District is a national historic district located at Village of the Branch in Suffolk County, New York. The district has 22 contributing buildings, one contributing structure, and four contributing objects.”
Wikipedia article Village of the Branch Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 1986 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Along N side of Middle Country Rd., Branch, 11780
When was it listed? September 1986
Category. district
Town. Smithtown town
National Register reference number. 86002514 - 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

802 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 802 fires within 5 miles of Village of Branch Historic District between 2000 and 2020, burning about 342 acres in total. 84 started naturally. 135 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	452
Arson/incendiarism	135
Natural	84
Smoking	55
Debris and open burning	19
Misuse of fire by a minor	19
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Power generation/transmission/distribution	16
Recreation and ceremony	4

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 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Village of Branch Historic District: 5 past producers, 4 producers, 1 unknown. 4 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
Indian Head Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kings Park Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
North East Mines Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Park Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
R Rchleider Contracting Corp.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Schleider Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Schleider Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Smithtown Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Smithtown Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Split Rock Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

16 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.

1902 USGS Setauket quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000 - 5 printings
1904 USGS Setauket quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1919 USGS Setauket quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Islip quadrangle1:125000
1947 USGS Central Islip quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Central Islip quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Setauket quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Central Islip quadrangle1:24000 - 4 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
First Presbyterian Church	0.7 miles	1977
Halliock Inn	0.7 miles	1974
Frederick and Annie Wagner Residence and St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church	1.4 miles	2019
Saint James District	1.6 miles	1973
Box Hill Estate	1.7 miles	1973
By-the-Harbor	1.8 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86002514 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.