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Photograph of Mackay Estate Dairyman's Cottage
Photograph by Daniel Winter, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Mackay Estate Dairyman's Cottage

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“The Mackay Estate Dairyman's Cottage is a historic house located within the Incorporated Village of East Hills in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, United States.”

Wikipedia article Mackay Estate Dairyman's Cottage, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau County · listed in 1991 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 40 Elm Dr., East Hills, 11576
  • When was it listed? March 1991
  • Category. building
  • Town. North Hempstead town
  • Architect. Warren and Wetmore
  • National Register reference number. 91000238 - 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

766 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 766 fires within 5 miles of Mackay Estate Dairyman's Cottage between 2000 and 2020, burning about 320 acres in total. 44 started naturally. 54 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/undetermined435
Smoking107
Arson/incendiarism54
Natural44
Power generation/transmission/distribution42
Equipment and vehicle use31
Debris and open burning25
Recreation and ceremony19
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2016Recreation and ceremony1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2002Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution2.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.3 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Mackay Estate Dairyman's Cottage: 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tungsten. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
L I Tungsten Corp/ Glen Cove, N.Y.TungstenUnknown
Mccormack Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Port Washington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Port Washington Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Port Washington PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this property

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Hills, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2020: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2020Thunderstorm WindEast Hills$10,000Numerous trees reported down around town.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindEast Hills$1,000A tree was reported down that covered 2 lanes of the westbound Long Island Expressway (I-495) Service Road (Store Hill Road) in the vicinity of Powells Lane.

Every storm recorded in Nassau County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Toll Gate House0.7 miles1977
Roslyn Cemetery0.7 miles1991
Mackay Estate Water Tower0.8 miles1991
DuPont-Guest Estate0.9 miles2009
Cedarmere-Clayton Estates0.9 miles1986
Mackay Estate Gate Lodge1.0 miles1991

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91000238 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nassau CountyAll 156 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.