Pine Hill Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Pine Hill Historic District is a national historic district located at Pine Hill, Ulster County, New York. It encompasses 125 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites, 2 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object in the hamlet of Pine Hill.”
Wikipedia article Pine Hill Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 2012 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Main, Academy, Elm, & Mill Sts., Bonnieview Ave., Pine Hill, Salomone, Station, & Old Turnpike Rds., Pine Hill, 12465
When was it listed? August 2012
Category. district
Town. Shandaken town
National Register reference number. 12000513 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

29 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Pine Hill Historic District between 2000 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 was 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	14
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Debris and open burning	4
Natural	3
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
13 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
9 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 May 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.6 acres	Fire Department of New York	CHANTREL FIRE
3 May 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
29 May 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
27 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this property

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Hill, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flood. 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
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Hill	$500,000	Cost estimated due to wind damage to many structures and flooding of roadways.
October 2021	Flood	Pine Hill	-	Flooding was observed along residential homes near the Hamlet of Pine Hill.
May 2012	Hail	Pine Hill	-	Quarter size hail was reported during a thunderstorm at the Belleayre Ski Area.

Every storm recorded in Ulster County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1900 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Phoenicia quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1945 USGS West Kill quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS West Kill quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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
Ulster House Hotel	under 500 feet	2002
Mill Street Stone Arch Bridge	under 500 feet	1996
District School No. 14	0.1 miles	1997
Morton Memorial Library	0.1 miles	1997
Elm Street Stone Arch Bridge	0.1 miles	1996
Balsam Lake Mountain Fire Observation Station	6.5 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12000513 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
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.