Richmond Town Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

One of 63 National Register listings published here for Richmond County · listed in 2025 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Arthur Kill Rd, Richmond Rd, Clarke Ave, Center St, St. Patrick's Pl, Staten Island, 10306
When was it listed? May 2025
Category. district
Borough. Staten Island
National Register reference number. 100010190 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1898 to 1986

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Richmond Town Historic District, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet covering Richmond Town Historic District, surveyed 1898

Fires near this property

2,352 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,352 fires within 5 miles of Richmond Town Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,807 acres in total. 238 started naturally. 185 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	1680
Natural	238
Arson/incendiarism	185
Smoking	90
Equipment and vehicle use	53
Debris and open burning	42
Recreation and ceremony	22
Misuse of fire by a minor	17
Fireworks	13
Power generation/transmission/distribution	9
Other causes	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
9 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Richmond County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Richmond Town Historic District: 4 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Platinum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Engelhard Minerals & Chem/ Carteret	Platinum	Plant
Cooper & Hewitt Mine	Iron	Past Producer
New Dorp Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Tyson Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Tyson's Mine & 2 Additional Mines	Iron	Past Producer	Residual

Every working recorded in Richmond County

Maps showing this location

16 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.

1898 USGS Staten Island quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000
1900 USGS Staten Island quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1905 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000 - 4 printings
1942 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1947 USGS Arthur Kill quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Arthur Kill quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1966 USGS Arthur Kill quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1984 USGS Newark quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Newark quadrangle1:100000

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
Voorlezer's House	under 500 feet	1966
Church of St. Andrew (Episcopal)	0.1 miles	2000
LaTourette House	0.3 miles	1982
Moore-McMillen House	0.4 miles	1980
Staten Island Light	0.4 miles	2005
New Dorp Light	0.4 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100010190 in Record Group 79.
Richmond County	All 63 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.