Nelson Avenue-Fort Hill Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“The Nelson Avenue-Fort Hill Historic District is a residential neighborhood in northwestern Peekskill, Westchester County, New York, United States. It encompasses 195 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites, and 1 contributing object and contains many late 19th-century homes in relatively intact condition.”
Wikipedia article Nelson Avenue-Fort Hill Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 2006 · category: District.

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

The listing

Listed as. Nelson Avenue--Fort Hill Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Roughly along Nelson Ave., John St., Diven St., Constant St., Orchard St., Pauling St., and Decatur Ave., Peekskill, 10566
When was it listed? May 2006
Category. district
City. Peekskill city
National Register reference number. 06000335 - 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

410 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 410 fires within 5 miles of Nelson Avenue-Fort Hill Historic District between 1993 and 2020, burning about 413 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 44 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	254
Arson/incendiarism	44
Natural	31
Smoking	24
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Debris and open burning	15
Power generation/transmission/distribution	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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
8 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Westchester County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Nelson Avenue-Fort Hill Historic District: 18 past producers, 6 occurrences, 6 producers, 4 prospects. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Emery, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Anthony's Nose Deposit	Sulfur	Past Producer
Cotton Rock Stilbite Deposit	Zeolites	Occurrence
Kinnaird Graphite Property Deposit	Graphite	Occurrence
Peekskill Area	Titanium, Metal, Iron, Aluminum	Occurrence
Peekskill Area Prospect	Titanium, Aluminum, Iron	Prospect
Phillips Mine	Molybdenum, Uranium	Occurrence	Replacement
Phillips Mine	Sulfur-Pyrite, Iron, Uranium	Past Producer	1865, 1880
Phillips Mine-Camp Smith Area	Cobalt, Copper, Gold, Nickel, Silver, Uranium	Past Producer	1866
Phillips Sulfide, Magnetite Mine	Iron, Uranium, Copper, Gold, Nickel, Silver, Sulfur	Past Producer
Phillips Sulfide, Magnetite, and Uranium Mine	Iron, Sulfur, Copper, Nickel, Uranium, Gold, Silver	Past Producer	1839, 1865

Every working recorded in Westchester County

Storms near this property

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peekskill, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2000	Tornado (F1)	Peekskill	2 hurt	no account filed
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Peekskill	$3,000	ConEd utility reports downed power lines.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Peekskill	$3,000	A large branch down damaging a fence.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Peekskill	$2,000	Numerous trees were reported down in Peekskill.
May 2024	Hail	Peekskill	-	Public reports 1.5 inch hail.
July 2023	Hail	Peekskill	-	Quarter-sized hail observed one mile north of Buchanan.
July 2023	Hail	Peekskill	-	Multiple reports of quarter-sized hail in Peekskill.
August 2011	Flash Flood	Peekskill	-	Main St., Park St. and Central Ave. in Peekskill were closed due to flooding.
October 2009	Flood	Peekskill	-	Route 9 was closed at Hudson Ave. due to flooding. The Saw Mill River Pkwy was also closed both northbound and southbound at exit 29 (Pleasantville Rd.).
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Peekskill	-	Trees were downed across Route 202.
July 2005	Hail	Peekskill	-	Penny size hail.
May 2000	Lightning	Peekskill	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Peekskill	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Peekskill	-	no account filed
August 1997	Flash Flood	Peekskill	-	no account filed
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Peekskill	-	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Peekskill	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Westchester County

Maps showing this location

16 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.

1892 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1899 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500 - 12 printings
1936 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1936 USGS West Point quadrangle1:48000
1941 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Peekskill quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Peekskill quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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
St. Peter's Episcopal Church	0.4 miles	2003
Thomas Nelson House	0.4 miles	2001
Peekskill Downtown Historic District	0.5 miles	2005
US Post Office-Peekskill	0.6 miles	1989
Peekskill Presbyterian Church	0.6 miles	2002
Drum Hill High School	0.7 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000335 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Westchester County	All 250 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.
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.