Woodstock Music Festival Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1922.

From the record

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 2017 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Generally W. Shore, Best & Perry Rds., Bethel, 12726
When was it listed? February 2017
Category. district
Town. Bethel town
National Register reference number. 100000684 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

112 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Woodstock Music Festival Site between 1993 and 2020, burning about 119 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 10 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	47
Debris and open burning	14
Natural	12
Arson/incendiarism	10
Smoking	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Other causes	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Woodstock Music Festival Site: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Fosterdale Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Fosterdale Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this property

14 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bethel, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Bethel	$20,000	A tree fell through a house.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bethel	$20,000	Intense thunderstorm winds knocked down swaths of trees which included three dozen large trees snapped off or uprooted in the hamlet of Smallwood. A number of homes suffered extensive damage when large trees fell on them. NYSEG reported 12,000 customers without power at the peak of the storm. Winds were estimated to be 60 to 80 miles per hour.
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Bethel	$20,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires. Some of the towns that had damage were Bethel, Woodbourne, Summitville, and Youngsville.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Bethel	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees onto a house.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Bethel	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down multiple trees in Bethel.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Bethel	$2,500	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Bethel	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires.
August 2009	Funnel Cloud	Bethel	-	A funnel cloud was observed about 1/2 mile from the location of damage in Bethel.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Bethel	-	Trees were blown down.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Bethel	-	SKYWARN storm spotters reported numerous trees blown down by thunderstorm winds in Kauneonga Lake, Lake Huntington, and White Lake. Several homes suffered minor damage from falling trees. 6000 people lost power due to fallen power lines.
May 2024	Hail	Bethel	-	no account filed
August 2014	Hail	Bethel	-	no account filed
August 2014	Hail	Bethel	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Bethel	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

1922 USGS White Lake quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1942 USGS White Lake quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:125000
1943 USGS White Lake quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1944 USGS White Lake quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Lake Huntington quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Monticello 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
Bikur Cholim B'nai Israel Synagogue	4.5 miles	1999
Stone Arch Bridge	4.7 miles	1976
Jewish Center of Lake Huntington	5.8 miles	2009
Cochecton Center Methodist Episcopal Church	6.0 miles	2000
Jeffersonville School	6.0 miles	1988
Jewish Community Center of White Sulphur Springs	7.2 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100000684 in Record Group 79.
Sullivan County	All 79 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.