Woodcrest

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Woodcrest, also known as the Homer Reboul Estate, is a national historic district located at Nissequogue in Suffolk County, New York. The district encompasses an estate with two contributing buildings and two contributing structure.”
Wikipedia article Woodcrest (Nissequogue, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 1993 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Moriches Rd., Nissequogue, 11780
When was it listed? August 1993
Category. district
Also known as. Stony Brook Harbor Estates MPS
Town. Smithtown town
Architectural style. Shingle style architecture
Architect. Isaac H. Green Jr.
National Register reference number. 93000709 - 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

502 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 502 fires within 5 miles of Woodcrest between 2000 and 2020, burning about 212 acres in total. 47 started naturally. 45 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	356
Natural	47
Arson/incendiarism	45
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Debris and open burning	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Smoking	9
Equipment and vehicle use	9
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 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
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
6 September 2007	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

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Woodcrest: 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 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
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

Every working recorded in Suffolk County

Storms near this property

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nissequogue, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Nissequogue	$3,000	Several trees were reported down on Frank Street.

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 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 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
Beachbend	0.2 miles	1993
Harbor House	0.3 miles	1993
William J. Ryan Estate	0.3 miles	1993
By-the-Harbor	0.6 miles	1993
Shore Cottage	0.6 miles	1993
James W. and Anne Smith Phyfe Estate	0.7 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93000709 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.