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One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 2019 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Ashokan Field Campus Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.
The listing
- Address. 477 Beaverkill Rd., Olive Bridge, 12461
- When was it listed? April 2019
- Category. district
- Town. Olive town
- National Register reference number. 100003622 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
144 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Ashokan Field Campus Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 251 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 24 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 | 74 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 25 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 22 September 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 17 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 15 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 12 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 1 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 9 August 2002 | Smoking | 4.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ashokan Field Campus Historic District: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nytralite Pit and Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Maps showing this location
11 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.
- 1901 USGS Rosendale quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Rosendale quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
- 1942 USGS Ashokan quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Ashokan quadrangle1:31680
- 1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Ashokan quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Monticello 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Ashokan-Turnwood Covered Bridge | 0.4 miles | 2000 |
 | Olive and Hurley Old School Baptist Church | 2.9 miles | 1998 |
 | Emile Brunel Studio and Sculpture Garden | 5.5 miles | 1999 |
 | Bevier Stone House | 5.8 miles | 2002 |
 | Kripplebush Historic District | 6.6 miles | 1994 |
 | Main Street Historic District | 6.6 miles | 1988 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100003622 in Record Group 79. |
| Ulster County | All 209 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.