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One of 79 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Hillig Castle
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.
The listing
- Address. 165 Castle Hill Rd., Liberty, 12768
- When was it listed? October 2021
- Category. building
- Town. Liberty town
- National Register reference number. 100007082 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
137 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Hillig Castle between 1997 and 2020, burning about 170 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 17 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 | 75 |
| Debris and open burning | 20 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 29 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 28 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 17 September 2012 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 8 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 August 2014 | Smoking | 2.4 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 4 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 3 August 2006 | Smoking | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Storms near this property
17 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Liberty, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2006 | Flash Flood | Liberty | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty | $10,000 | A thunderstorm moved into the area Monday afternoon and quickly became severe. The thunderstorm knocked trees and wires down from Roscoe to Liberty to Monticello. |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty | $7,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Flash Flood | Liberty | $5,000 | A spotter reported 2.14 inches of rain in 24 hours ending at 7 a.m., then another 2 inches from 7 a.m. to 930 a.m. Parts of a roadway were washed away below this location. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and wires in Liberty and Harris. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty | $3,000 | Trees and wires were blown down. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty | $2,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree and wires near the intersection of Buckley Street and West Street. |
| May 2018 | Funnel Cloud | Liberty | - | Spotter reported a funnel cloud and pea sized hail. |
| July 2009 | Heavy Rain | Liberty | - | One hour rainfall measured 1.12 inches. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty | - | Trees down. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Liberty | - | An isolated severe thunderstorm dumped hail up to three-quarters inch in Liberty during the afternoon of June 14th. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Liberty | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Liberty | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Liberty | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Liberty | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Liberty | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Liberty | - | no account filed |
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.
- 1910 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
- 1942 USGS Neversink quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:125000
- 1944 USGS Neversink 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
- 1966 USGS Liberty East quadrangle1:24000 - 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Liberty Village Historic District | 1.8 miles | 1978 |
| Liberty Downtown Historic District | 1.8 miles | 2006 | |
 | Town and Country Building | 1.8 miles | 2004 |
 | St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church | 1.9 miles | 1997 |
 | Munson Diner | 2.1 miles | 2006 |
 | First Methodist Episcopal Church of Parksville | 2.5 miles | 2001 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100007082 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.
- 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.