Vosburg Turning Mill Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Vosburg Turning Mill is a historic turning mill complex located near Woodstock, Ulster County, New York. The complex includes the large two-story, L-shaped timber frame mill (1899) and two associate dwellings.”
Wikipedia article Vosburg Turning Mill Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 2002 · category: District.

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 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 52 Hutchin Hill Rd., Woodstock, 12495
When was it listed? October 2002
Category. district
Town. Woodstock town
National Register reference number. 02001120 - 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.

Then and now

1892 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Vosburg Turning Mill Complex, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet covering Vosburg Turning Mill Complex, surveyed 1892

Fires near this property

52 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Vosburg Turning Mill Complex between 1993 and 2020, burning about 194 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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	17
Smoking	9
Debris and open burning	7
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Recreation and ceremony	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
28 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
11 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
31 July 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 July 2020	Recreation and ceremony	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
13 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 June 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 May 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	146 acres	New York Forest Rangers	HEAVENLY VALLEY FIRE
6 May 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this property

23 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodstock, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 14 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flood, 1 lightning. 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
December 2023	Flood	Woodstock	$10,000	Numerous county and town roads were closed in the Town of Woodstock.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodstock	$10,000	no account filed
July 2009	Lightning	Woodstock	$5,000	Trees and wires were reported down approximately 1 mile north of Woodstock due to lightning.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodstock	$5,000	Severe thunderstorms ahead of a cold front moved through the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York during the late afternoon hours of June 14th. Torrential rains accompanied the thunderstorms which resulted in flash flooding in parts of Dutchess and Ulster Counties. Thunderstorm winds downed trees and powerlines in parts of Dutchess and Columbia Counties. Flash flooding occurred in the Town of Ulster where buildings were flooded with several feet of water and across parts of Dutchess County where three to four inches of rain fell in a two to three hour period.
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodstock	$5,000	Severe thunderstorm winds downed power lines across parts of Ulster County leaving 250 customers without power on the evening of August 14th.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodstock	$5,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodstock	$5,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodstock	$2,000	no account filed
June 2023	Hail	Woodstock	-	Nickel size hail was reported near Woodstock.
May 2018	Hail	Woodstock	-	Quarter sized hail lasted three to four minutes.
February 2016	Flood	Woodstock	-	Due to heavy rainfall and snow melt occurring over a frozen ground, flooding occurred in Woodstock at the intersection of Routes 212 and 375.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodstock	-	A tree and wires were downed in Woodstock due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodstock	-	Trees and wires were reported down in Woodstock due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2014	Flash Flood	Woodstock	-	Heavy rainfall from thunderstorms caused flash flooding in Woodstock. Route 212 and Wittenberg Road were closed due to high water.
October 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodstock	-	Trees were reported down on Pine Grove Street in Woodstock as a result of thunderstorm winds.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodstock	-	A tree was reported down blocking traffic on Route 375 in Woodstock due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodstock	-	Trees and powerlines were reported down in Woodstock due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodstock	-	Numerous trees and wires were reported down near Woodstock due to strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2007	Hail	Woodstock	-	Nickel size hail was reported near Woodstock.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodstock	-	Wires were reported down due to strong thunderstorm winds in Woodstock.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodstock	-	Trees blown down.
August 1997	Hail	Woodstock	-	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	Woodstock	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ulster County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

1892 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1893 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500
1899 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1903 USGS Kaaterskill quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1945 USGS Bearsville quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1946 USGS Bearsville quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1997 USGS Bearsville quadrangle1:24000

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
Mount Tremper Fire Observation Station	2.4 miles	2001
Camp Wapanachki	2.6 miles	1994
Phoenicia Railroad Station	4.0 miles	1995
Al Held House and Studio	4.1 miles	2021
Byrdcliffe Historic District	4.9 miles	1979
Emile Brunel Studio and Sculpture Garden	5.3 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001120 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.
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.