Hawkins Homestead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Hawkins Homestead, also known as the Zachariah Hawkins Homestead, is a historic home located at 165 Christian Avenue in Stony Brook in Brookhaven Town, Suffolk County, New York. It was built originally about 1660 and is a saltbox-form dwelling.”
Wikipedia article Hawkins Homestead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 1988 · 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, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 165 Christian Ave., Stony Brook, 11790
When was it listed? June 1988
Category. building
Town. Brookhaven town
National Register reference number. 88000727 - 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

560 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 560 fires within 5 miles of Hawkins Homestead between 2000 and 2020, burning about 201 acres in total. 50 started naturally. 43 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	422
Natural	50
Arson/incendiarism	43
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Smoking	10
Debris and open burning	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Hawkins Homestead: 3 past producers, 1 plant, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Titanium. 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
Lawrence Aviation Industries Plant	Titanium	Unknown
Port Jefferson Station B Plant	Titanium, Metal	Plant
Smithtown Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Smithtown Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Suffolk Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Suffolk Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

14 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stony Brook, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Stony Brook	1 hurt	no account filed
August 2024	Flash Flood	Stony Brook	$500,000	Harbor Road collapsed due Mill Pond overflowing. Local fire department began precautionary evacuations of nearby homes.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Stony Brook	$1,000	Video of large tree down across Lotowana Lane in Stony Brook NY.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Stony Brook	$1,000	A tree was reported down on Stony Brook Road.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Stony Brook	$1,000	A downed tree brought down power lines over the track of the Port Jefferson Branch of the Long Island Railroad.
February 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Stony Brook	$500	A trained spotter measured a gust of 67 mph and several large branches were reported down throughout the West Meadow Beach neighborhood of Stony Brook.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Stony Brook	-	Mesonet site EW5678 in Stony Brook NY measured a 52 knot wind gust.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Stony Brook	-	A thunderstorm / convective wind gust of 60 mph was measured at EW5678 Stony Brook station.
September 2018	Flash Flood	Stony Brook	-	Flooding in two homes on Martingale Court in Stony Brook resulted in electrical issues.
September 2018	Flash Flood	Stony Brook	-	A car was submerged in water with the driver inside the vehicle on Edmund D. Pellegrino Road in South Setauket.
September 2018	Flash Flood	Stony Brook	-	The south entrance to Stony Brook University Hospital in Stony Brook was flooded and impassable.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Stony Brook	-	A wind gust of 95 mph was measured on the roof of Stony Brook University's Health Sciences Tower.
June 2009	Hail	Stony Brook	-	Nickel to quarter size hail was reported in Stony Brook.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Stony Brook	-	no account filed

Every storm 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 coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, 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 St James quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Saint James quadrangle1:24000
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 Saint James 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
Old Bethel Cemetery	0.2 miles	2017
Gamecock Cottage	0.5 miles	2007
West Meadow Beach Historic District	0.6 miles	2004
St. James Chapel	1.0 miles	2000
Thompson House	1.1 miles	1988
Old Field Club and Farm	1.1 miles	2016

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88000727 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.