New Kingston Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“New Kingston Historic District is a national historic district located at New Kingston in Delaware County, New York. The district contains 44 contributing buildings and four contributing structures.”
Wikipedia article New Kingston Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Delaware County · listed in 2008 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Co. Rd. 6, New Kingston, 12459
When was it listed? February 2008
Category. district
Town. Middletown town
National Register reference number. 08000037 - 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

55 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of New Kingston Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Natural	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	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
31 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 August 2008	Arson/incendiarism	4.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
17 August 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
14 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named
14 July 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
12 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this property

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Kingston, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	New Kingston	$1,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree near the intersection of New Kingston Mountain Road and Harold Roberts Road.

Every storm recorded in Delaware County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1901 USGS Margaretville quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Margaretville quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1945 USGS Margaretville quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1946 USGS Margaretville quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir 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
New Kingston Presbyterian Church	under 500 feet	2002
Van Benschoten House and Guest House	3.3 miles	2002
Walter Coulter Homestead Farm	3.3 miles	2025
Old School Baptist Church of Halcottsville	4.2 miles	1999
Walter Stratton House	4.4 miles	2002
Kelly Round Barn	4.5 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000037 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Delaware County	All 78 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.