Stone Spillway, National Defense Stockpile Center

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Stone Spillway, National Defense Stockpile Center is a historic spillway located on the grounds of the National Defense Stockpile Center at Hillcrest in Broome County, New York. It was built in 1944 of hand dressed fieldstone and concrete mortar, that was designed to direct runoff water from an intermittent stream through a gap in the riprap area and into the main ditch.”
Wikipedia article Stone Spillway, National Defense Stockpile Center, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 66 National Register listings published here for Broome County · listed in 2004 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. N of Gilmore Ave., Hilcrest, 13901
When was it listed? April 2004
Category. structure
Town. Fenton town
National Register reference number. 04000347 - 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

428 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 428 fires within 5 miles of Stone Spillway, National Defense Stockpile Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 320 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 40 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	190
Smoking	58
Arson/incendiarism	40
Debris and open burning	30
Recreation and ceremony	28
Equipment and vehicle use	25
Natural	19
Misuse of fire by a minor	15
Power generation/transmission/distribution	13
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Other causes	2

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
9 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
9 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2010	Smoking	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Broome County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Stone Spillway, National Defense Stockpile Center: 6 past producers, 4 producers, 1 prospect, 1 plant. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Brown No.1 Well	Salt	Prospect
Binghampton Brick Co. Pit	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Binghampton Brick Co. Pit	Clay	Plant
Boland Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Chenango Bridge Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Corbisello Quarries	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hale Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Rose Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Rose Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Serafini Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Broome 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.

1904 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1934 USGS Castle Creek quadrangle1:24000
1942 USGS Castle Creek quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1942 USGS Castle Creek quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Castle Creek quadrangle1:24000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Castle Creek quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS Binghamton 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
Bevier-Wright House	1.5 miles	2008
Cameo Theatre	3.3 miles	2022
New York State Inebriate Asylum	3.4 miles	1996
Binghamton Railway Company Complex	3.7 miles	2006
Trinity Memorial Church	3.8 miles	1998
Railroad Terminal Historic District	3.8 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000347 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Broome County	All 66 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.