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Photograph of Bangall Post Office
Photograph by Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Bangall Post Office

Built in 1915. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.

From the record

“Bangall Post Office is a historic post office building located at Bangall, Dutchess County, New York. It was built in 1915, and is a small one-story, rectangular frame building sheathed in clapboard.”

Wikipedia article Bangall Post Office, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 266 National Register listings published here for Dutchess County · listed in 2014 · category: Building · built in 1915.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. 105 Hunns Lake Rd., Bangall, 12581
  • When was it listed? May 2014
  • Category. building
  • Town. Stanford town
  • When was it built? 1915
  • National Register reference number. 14000224 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1899 to 1993

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Bangall Post Office, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet covering Bangall Post Office, surveyed 1899

Fires near this property

91 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Bangall Post Office between 2000 and 2020, burning about 81 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 26 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/undetermined37
Arson/incendiarism26
Debris and open burning11
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2

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
8 September 2003Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
18 September 2012Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
2 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Bangall Post Office: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead. 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
Smithfield MineLeadPast Producer
Bangall Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Bangall Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Liberia PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Shunpike Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Standford S & G Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Stanfordville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Storms near this property

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bangall, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 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
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBangall-A social media report was received of multiple large trees down on Route 82 in Stanfordville.

Every storm recorded in Dutchess County

Maps showing this location

12 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
Dr. Cornelius Nase Campbell House0.9 miles2007
Walter Beckwith House2.8 miles2016
Wethersfield3.3 miles2021
Attlebury Schoolhouse3.4 miles2016
Pulver-Bird, House4.1 miles2008
Clinton Corners Friends Church4.6 miles1989

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 14000224 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.