Rushmore Memorial Library

Built in 1923 (Arts and Crafts movement). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“The Rushmore Memorial Library, also known as the Rushmore Memorial Building, is located at the junction of NY 32 and Weygant Hill Road in Highland Mills, New York, United States. It is a small Arts and Crafts-style stone building constructed in the 1920s with a donation from Charles E.”
Wikipedia article Rushmore Memorial Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 2008 · category: Building · built in 1923, Arts and Crafts movement.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Weygant Hill Rd. & NY 32, Highland Mills, 10930
When was it listed? April 2008
Category. building
Town. Woodbury town
When was it built? 1923
Architectural style. Arts and Crafts movement
National Register reference number. 08000276 - 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

1,222 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,222 fires within 5 miles of Rushmore Memorial Library between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,096 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 130 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	506
Debris and open burning	382
Arson/incendiarism	130
Misuse of fire by a minor	73
Equipment and vehicle use	41
Natural	35
Smoking	22
Recreation and ceremony	16
Fireworks	9
Other causes	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Orange 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 Rushmore Memorial Library: 8 past producers, 2 producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gemstone. 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
Fall Hill Wernerite Deposit	Gemstone	Occurrence
Blooming Grove Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
High Mills Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
High Mills Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Highland Mills Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bull Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Bull Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Magnetite
Clove Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Forest of Dean Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Magnetite
Ranier Hill Prospect	Iron	Prospect

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this property

9 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Highland Mills, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 2023	Flash Flood	Highland Mills	1 killed	Woman found dead after being swept away by flood waters.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Highland Mills	$20,000	A tree was reported down on a house and car along Ridge Road.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Highland Mills	$7,500	Numerous trees were reported down across the Village of Kiryas Joel.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Highland Mills	$7,500	Numerous trees were reported down southwest of Woodbury.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Highland Mills	$3,000	Tree on wires on Pleasant Drive.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Highland Mills	$3,000	Powerline and tree down.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Highland Mills	$1,000	A tree was reported down on Acres Road in Kiryas Joel.
June 2017	Flash Flood	Highland Mills	-	Lent Drive and Schunnemunk Road at Ridge Road were closed due to flooding in Highland Mills.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Highland Mills	-	Wires down near 810 State Route 32.

Every storm recorded in Orange 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.

1902 USGS Schunemunk quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1930 USGS Schunemunk quadrangle1:48000
1930 USGS Schunemunk quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1935 USGS Schunemunk quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Middletown 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
Smith Clove Meetinghouse	1.0 miles	1974
Village of Monroe Historic District	3.6 miles	1998
Arden	3.7 miles	1966
Rest Haven	4.0 miles	2017
Elias Hand House	4.1 miles	1998
Mountainville Grange Hall	4.1 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000276 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orange County	All 187 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.