Photograph of Ashokan Bridge — Photograph by JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ MD, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Ashokan-Turnwood Covered Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“Ashokan Bridge is a wooden covered bridge over Esopus Creek on the grounds of the Ashokan Center, in Ulster County, New York, United States. It was built in 1885, and is a single span, gable roofed, covered timber bridge.”
Wikipedia article Ashokan Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 2000 · category: Structure.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Ashokan--Turnwood Covered Bridge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 477 Beaverkill Rd., Oliverbridge, 12461
When was it listed? July 2000
Category. structure
Town. Olive town
National Register reference number. 00000822 - 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

143 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Ashokan-Turnwood Covered Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 252 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 21 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	78
Arson/incendiarism	21
Debris and open burning	15
Recreation and ceremony	8
Smoking	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3

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
5 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
25 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
12 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
1 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
9 August 2002	Smoking	4.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ashokan-Turnwood Covered Bridge: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Nytralite Pit and Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1901 USGS Rosendale quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Rosendale quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1942 USGS Ashokan quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Ashokan quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Ashokan quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Monticello 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
Ashokan Field Campus Historic District	0.4 miles	2019
Olive and Hurley Old School Baptist Church	3.3 miles	1998
Bevier Stone House	5.6 miles	2002
Emile Brunel Studio and Sculpture Garden	5.9 miles	1999
Kripplebush Historic District	6.1 miles	1994
Main Street Historic District	6.2 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000822 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ulster County	All 209 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.