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Onteora Park Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Onteora Park Historic District is a national historic district located at Hunter in Greene County, New York. The district contains 94 contributing buildings and seven contributing structures.”

Wikipedia article Onteora Park Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 101 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 2003 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. Onteora Club Property, Hunter, 12485
  • When was it listed? February 2003
  • Category. district
  • Town. Hunter town
  • National Register reference number. 03000023 - 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 Onteora Park Historic District, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet covering Onteora Park Historic District, surveyed 1892

Fires near this property

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Onteora Park Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 106 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined22
Debris and open burning19
Recreation and ceremony14
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural7
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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
7 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
4 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersYELLOWJACKET FIRE
2 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersBUTTERMILK FALLS FIRE
2 September 1993Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
13 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersEAST KILL FIRE
3 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
21 August 1993Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Storms near this property

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hunter, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2001Thunderstorm WindHunter$12,000no account filed
October 1995Thunderstorm WindHunter$5,000no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindHunter-Two trees were reported down in the town of Hunter.
October 2017Heavy RainHunter-Social Media reported 7 inches of heavy rainfall.
February 2006Thunderstorm WindHunter-A tree was blown down in Hunter during a thunderstorm.
July 1995HailHunter-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greene County

Maps showing this location

14 surveys

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.

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
All Souls Church1.2 miles1993
Tannersville Main Street Historic District1.2 miles2008
Hathaway1.4 miles2008
Church of St. John the Evangelist2.0 miles2004
Alpine, The2.5 miles2023
St. Mary's of the Mountain Church2.6 miles1999

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 03000023 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greene CountyAll 101 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.