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Photograph of Columbia Turnpike-West Tollhouse
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Columbia Turnpike-West Tollhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Columbia Turnpike-West Tollhouse is a historic tollhouse located at Greenport in Columbia County, New York. It was built about 1800 and is a three bay square limestone building with a medium pitched gable roof.”

Wikipedia article Columbia Turnpike-West Tollhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 155 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 2000 · 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. Columbia Turnpike--West Tollhouse - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. NY 23B, Greenport, 12534
  • When was it listed? December 2000
  • Category. building
  • Town. Greenport town
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 00001571 - 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

246 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 246 fires within 5 miles of Columbia Turnpike-West Tollhouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 341 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined103
Debris and open burning36
Natural34
Equipment and vehicle use23
Smoking20
Arson/incendiarism19
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2020Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
28 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2011Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Columbia Turnpike-West Tollhouse: 8 producers, 8 past producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Iron. 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
Fabiano PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kearny PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plass Hill Carbonate Iron MineIron, SulfurProducerCalcite, Pyrite, Quartz, Siderite
Plass Hill Carbonate Iron MineIron, SulfurPast Producer
Hudson Clay PitClayProducer
Plass HillIronPast ProducerResidual
West Athens Clay PitClayProducer
West Athens Clay PitClayPast Producer
Brick Tavern-Mount Ida Limestone QuStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Brick Tavern-Mount Ida Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Maps showing this location

12 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
Elisha Williams House0.9 miles1999
Harriet Phillips Bungalow1.0 miles1997
Rossman-Prospect Avenue Historic District1.0 miles1985
Dubois, Henry A., and Evanlina, House1.1 miles2004
Ludlow-Van Rensselaer House1.2 miles1997
Jan Van Hoesen House1.2 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00001571 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Columbia CountyAll 155 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.