Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.
From the record
“Obadiah Smith House is a historic home located at Kings Park in Suffolk County, New York. It was built about 1708 and is a two-story, heavy timber frame, five-bay center entrance dwelling, with a side gable roof and interior end chimneys.”
Wikipedia article Obadiah Smith House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 338 National Register listings published here for Suffolk County · listed in 1996 · category: Building.
Architectural style. Federal architecture, American colonial architecture
National Register reference number.96001422- 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
492 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 492 fires within 5 miles of Obadiah Smith House
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 204 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 53 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
337
Arson/incendiarism
53
Natural
35
Misuse of fire by a minor
18
Smoking
17
Power generation/transmission/distribution
11
Equipment and vehicle use
10
Debris and open burning
8
Other causes
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
10 workings within 5 miles of Obadiah Smith House: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Smithtown, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 8 flash flood, 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud.
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.
The Nissequogue River dam broke due to the flash flooding causing the entire Blydenburgh Pond to empty into the river. The river overflowed its banks, sending water into homes and nearby streets. Two residents were trapped in their homes and had to be rescued.
Southbound Old Willets Path was closed at Grandview Lane in Hauppauge due to flash flooding. Storm total rainfall was 3.83 inches in Mattituck and at the Westhampton Airport.
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.
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.
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.
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