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One of 101 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 2017 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Oak Hill Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.
The listing
- Address. NY 81, Oak Hill Rd., Giles Ln., Oak Hill, 12422
- When was it listed? September 2017
- Category. district
- Town. Durham town
- National Register reference number. 100001586 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
102 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Oak Hill Historic District between 1994 and 2020, burning about 79 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 18 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 | 48 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 18 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 25 August 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 17 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 11 August 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 8 July 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 July 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Storms near this property
1 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Hill, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1994: 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 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Hill | $5,000 | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
10 surveysUnited 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.
- 1893 USGS Durham quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Durham quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
- 1945 USGS Durham quadrangle1:24000
- 1946 USGS Durham quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Durham quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | W.F. DeWitt Hotel | under 500 feet | 2001 |
 | Ford's Store | under 500 feet | 2001 |
 | L.E. Cleveland House | 0.1 miles | 2001 |
 | St. Paul's Lutheran Church | 0.2 miles | 2005 |
 | A. T. House | 0.2 miles | 2006 |
 | Charles Pierce House | 0.2 miles | 2001 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100001586 in Record Group 79. |
| Greene County | All 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.
- 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.