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Photograph of Dock Hill Road Extension Stone Arch Bridge
Photograph by JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ M.D, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Dock Hill Road Extension Stone Arch Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Dock Hill Road Extension Stone Arch Bridge is a historic stone arch bridge located at Cornwall on Hudson in Orange County, New York.”

Wikipedia article Dock Hill Road Extension Stone Arch Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 2010 · category: Structure.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Dock Hill Rd. Extension, Cornwall-on-Hudson, 12520
  • When was it listed? January 2010
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Stone Arch Bridges of the Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York
  • Town. Cornwall town
  • National Register reference number. 09001230 - 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.

Then and now

1902 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Dock Hill Road Extension Stone Arch Bridge, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Dock Hill Road Extension Stone Arch Bridge, surveyed 1902

Fires near this property

562 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 562 fires within 5 miles of Dock Hill Road Extension Stone Arch Bridge between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,069 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 48 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/undetermined356
Arson/incendiarism48
Natural39
Recreation and ceremony37
Smoking36
Debris and open burning19
Equipment and vehicle use11
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes2
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2016Recreation and ceremony3.8 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2016Recreation and ceremony1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Dock Hill Road Extension Stone Arch Bridge: 16 past producers, 4 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Clay, Stone. 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
Bog Meadow Pond DepositZirconiumOccurrence
Constitution Island OccurrenceMolybdenumOccurrence
Graphite Mine No. Hk-019GraphitePast ProducerGraphite
Graphite Mine No. Hk-019GraphitePast Producer
Chateaugay MineIronPast Producer1871
Clay Pit No. Hk-020ClayPast ProducerClay
Clay Pit No. Hk-020ClayPast Producer
Clay Pits No. Hk-018ClayPast ProducerClay
Clay Pits No. Hk-018ClayPast Producer
Granitic Gneiss Rock QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Orange County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

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
Lower Dock Hill Road Stone Arch Bridge0.2 miles2010
Union Chapel0.4 miles2012
River View House0.4 miles1982
Camp Olmsted0.5 miles1982
Adams-Chadeayne-Taft Estate0.7 miles2013
Storm King Highway0.7 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 09001230 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orange CountyAll 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.