Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.
From the record
“Watkins Glen Grand Prix Course, 1948-1952 is a historic Sports Car Club of America auto race track located at Watkins Glen in Schuyler County, New York. It includes the public rights of way that constituted the route of the original 6.6-mile (10.6 km) Watkins Glen Grand Prix course used from 1948 to 1952.”
Wikipedia article Watkins Glen Grand Prix Course, 1948-1952, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 20 National Register listings published here for Schuyler County · listed in 2002 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.02001397- 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
1898 to 1992
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18981992
Fires near this property
98 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Watkins Glen Grand Prix Course, 1948-1952
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 87 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 6 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
42
Debris and open burning
30
Natural
12
Arson/incendiarism
6
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Recreation and ceremony
2
Smoking
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
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
22 workings within 5 miles of Watkins Glen Grand Prix Course, 1948-1952: 15 past producers, 4 producers, 3 plants.
7 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bromine, Natural Gas. 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
Watkins Glen, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 lightning.
The reports record 2 injuries. 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.
Flash flooding spilled across several streets in the Village of Watkins Glen and nearby county roads. There was a report of 2 feet of water in one intersection.
A severe thunderstorm produced severe winds as it moved across the area. The thunderstorm resulted in trees and wires being knocked down around Watkins Glen.
Straight line wind damage was evident near a home just west of Watkins Glen. A roof was partially torn off a shed. A small chicken coup was moved off its foundation by almost a foot. There were also several branches down in the storm damage area.
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.
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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