Terry-Ketcham Inn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Terry-Ketcham Inn is a historic inn and tavern located at Center Moriches in Suffolk County, New York. It was built about 1693, expanded about 1710 and 1790, and is a two-story, nine-bay by two-bay frame structure with a rear wing and gable roof.”
Wikipedia article Terry-Ketcham Inn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 1993 · 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. Terry--Ketcham Inn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 81 Main St., Center Moriches, 11934
When was it listed? June 1993
Category. building
Town. Brookhaven town
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 92000555 - 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

650 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 650 fires within 5 miles of Terry-Ketcham Inn between 2000 and 2020, burning about 420 acres in total. 47 started naturally. 103 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	443
Arson/incendiarism	103
Natural	47
Equipment and vehicle use	28
Smoking	14
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Debris and open burning	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Other causes	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 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Center Moriches, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Center Moriches	$500	A trained spotter estimated wind gusts of 50 to 60 mph.
December 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Center Moriches	-	Mesonet site XMOR in East Moriches NY measured a 53 knot wind gust.
November 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Center Moriches	-	A thunderstorm wind gust of 79 mph was measured at East Moriches CG station.
August 2008	Hail	Center Moriches	-	Nickel size hail was reported in Center Moriches.

Every storm recorded in Suffolk County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1904 USGS Moriches quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Moriches quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Moriches quadrangle1:24000 - 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
Mary E. Bell House (Additional Documentation)	0.5 miles	2020
Masury Estate Ballroom	2.0 miles	1986
William Floyd House	3.3 miles	1980
Jagger House	5.5 miles	1978
ELVIRA (sloop)	6.5 miles	2012
Robert Hawkins Homestead	7.2 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92000555 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.
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.