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Hopewell Junction Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

One of 266 National Register listings published here for Dutchess County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 36 Railroad Ave., Hopewell Junction, 12533
  • When was it listed? February 2021
  • Category. building
  • Town. East Fishkill town
  • National Register reference number. 100005449 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1893 to 1993

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Hopewell Junction Depot, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet covering Hopewell Junction Depot, surveyed 1893

Fires near this property

318 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 318 fires within 5 miles of Hopewell Junction Depot between 1993 and 2020, burning about 300 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 53 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/undetermined134
Arson/incendiarism53
Smoking34
Natural31
Debris and open burning29
Equipment and vehicle use11
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Recreation and ceremony9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7

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
7 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2015Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Hopewell Junction Depot: 25 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, 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
Borrow PitStone, ClayPast Producer
Probably Borrow Pit of Limestone Or Unconsolidated MaterialStone, ClayPast Producer
Stormville PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Beekman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Clapp Hill Gravel BankSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fishkill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fishkill Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Hopeville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hopewell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Lime Kiln PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Storms near this property

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hopewell Junction, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1995Thunderstorm WindHopewell Junction$500,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindHopewell Junction$5,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dutchess County

Maps showing this location

14 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
Bykenhulle1.9 miles1991
Storm-Adriance-Brinckerhoff House2.6 miles2008
Beekman Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery3.9 miles1989
Beekman Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery3.9 miles1989
Joseph Horton House4.2 miles1988
Shear Homestead4.7 miles2021

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100005449 in Record Group 79.
Dutchess CountyAll 266 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.