Valhalla Highlands Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Valhalla Highlands Historic District, also known as Lake Valhalla, is a national historic district located near Cold Spring in Putnam County, New York. The district encompasses 57 contributing buildings, 11 contributing sites, 10 contributing structures, 7 contributing objects and a 900-acre forest in an early second home community established by primarily German/Austrians and Norwegians from New York City.”
Wikipedia article Valhalla Highlands Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 49 National Register listings published here for Putnam County · listed in 2014 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly Highland Rd., Locust, Lookout & Mountainview Drs., Cold Spring, 10516
When was it listed? November 2014
Category. district
Town. Philipstown town
National Register reference number. 14000915 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

460 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 460 fires within 5 miles of Valhalla Highlands Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,162 acres in total. 46 started naturally. 54 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	251
Arson/incendiarism	54
Natural	46
Smoking	42
Debris and open burning	20
Recreation and ceremony	19
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
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
7 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2008	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Putnam County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 45 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 45 workings within 5 miles of Valhalla Highlands Historic District: 36 past producers, 8 producers, 1 occurrence. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Iron. 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
Hustis Quarry	Titanium	Occurrence
Limestone Rock Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Probably Serpentine Marble Rock Quarry No. Hk-022	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer	Marble
Graphite Mine No. Hk-019	Graphite	Past Producer	Graphite
Graphite Mine No. Hk-019	Graphite	Past Producer
Serpentine Marble Quarry	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer
Serpentine Marble Quarry	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer
Serpentine Marble Quarry	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer
Chateaugay Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1871
Granitic Gneiss Rock Quarry	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Putnam County

Maps showing this location

17 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.

1892 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1899 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500 - 12 printings
1936 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1936 USGS West Point quadrangle1:48000
1941 USGS West Point quadrangle1:24000
1941 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1947 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS West Point quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS West Point quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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
Montrest	3.3 miles	1982
Hustis House	3.5 miles	1982
Champlin, H. D., & Son Horseshoeing and Wagonmaking	3.7 miles	1982
J. Y. Dykman Flour and Feed Store	3.7 miles	1982
Old Albany Post Road	3.7 miles	1982
Fish and Fur Club	3.7 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000915 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Putnam County	All 49 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.