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Twilight Park Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Twilight Park Historic District is a national historic district located at Haines Falls in Greene County, New York. The district contains 102 contributing buildings, one contributing site, and seven contributing structures.”

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

One of 101 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 2007 · category: District.

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

The listing

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 Twilight Park Historic District, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet covering Twilight Park Historic District, surveyed 1892

Fires near this property

103 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Twilight Park Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 73 acres in total. 8 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/undetermined39
Debris and open burning19
Recreation and ceremony16
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
29 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersDIBBLES UNATTEND CAMPFIRE
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 2015Smokingunder an acreNew York Forest RangersPOET'S LEDGE FIRE

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Twilight Park Historic District: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Batchellerville Garnet PitFeldsparPast Producer

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this property

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Haines Falls, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2011: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. The reports record 5 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1995Thunderstorm WindHaines Falls5 hurt, $1,000no account filed
August 2011FloodHaines Falls-Route 23A was closed due to flooding between Route 32 in Palenville to County Route 18 in Hunter.
July 1995HailHaines Falls-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greene County

Maps showing this location

13 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
Ulster and Delaware Railroad Station0.7 miles1996
Aaron Haines Family Cemetery0.8 miles2018
Alpine, The1.0 miles2023
Frank D. Layman Memorial1.4 miles2003
Tannersville Main Street Historic District2.3 miles2008
Hathaway2.6 miles2008

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 07000626 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.
  • 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.