MARY A. WHALEN (tanker)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“Kiddoo from 1938 to 1958, is a historic oil tanker located in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, Kings County, New York. She is the home of the non-profit PortSide NewYork, and the group runs programs aboard her.”
Wikipedia article Mary A. Whalen (tanker), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 207 National Register listings published here for Kings County · listed in 2012 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Pier 11, Atlantic Basin, Red Hook, Red Hook
When was it listed? October 2012
Category. structure
National Register reference number. 12000831 - 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.

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 MARY A. WHALEN (tanker), surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet covering MARY A. WHALEN (tanker), surveyed 1898

Fires near this property

1,223 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,223 fires within 5 miles of MARY A. WHALEN (tanker) between 2002 and 2020, burning about 315 acres in total. 78 started naturally. 105 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	793
Arson/incendiarism	105
Natural	78
Smoking	76
Debris and open burning	53
Equipment and vehicle use	44
Fireworks	31
Misuse of fire by a minor	22
Recreation and ceremony	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Other causes	2

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 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
9 September 2010	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 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2014	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Kings County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of MARY A. WHALEN (tanker): 5 unknowns, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Graphite, Manganese. 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
49th St & 1st Ave Beryl Deposit	Beryllium	Occurrence
Dixon Crucible/ Jersey City, N.J.	Graphite	Unknown
General Metallic Oxides/Jersey City	Manganese	Unknown
Manhattan Island Occurrence	Molybdenum	Occurrence
2nd St & 4th Ave Siderite Deposit	Iron	Occurrence
D Smith Steel/ Brooklyn, N.Y.	Iron	Unknown
N L Industries/ Brooklyn. N.Y.	Lead	Unknown
Roosevelt Metal/ Brooklyn, N.Y.	Lead	Unknown

Every working recorded in Kings County

Maps showing this location

16 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.

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 Jersey City quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Jersey City 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
1967 USGS Jersey City quadrangle1:24000 - 3 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
Atlantic Avenue Tunnel	0.4 miles	1989
Cobble Hill Historic District	0.6 miles	1976
John Rankin House	0.7 miles	1978
South Congregational Church	0.7 miles	1982
Brooklyn Heights Historic District	0.8 miles	1966
Holy Trinity Church (Protestant Episcopal)	0.8 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12000831 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kings County	All 207 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.