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Dover Stone Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

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

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. Stone Church Ln., Dover Plains, 12522
  • When was it listed? December 2014
  • Category. site
  • Town. Dover town
  • National Register reference number. 14000981 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1893 to 1998

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Dover Stone Church, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet covering Dover Stone Church, surveyed 1893

Fires near this property

68 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Dover Stone Church between 1995 and 2020, burning about 689 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined25
Debris and open burning12
Natural9
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
9 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkCART ROAD FIRE
6 September 2016Debris and open burning1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreNew York Forest RangersCART ROAD FIRE
5 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
26 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 July 2002Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Dover Stone Church: 15 past producers, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Peat, Iron, Manganese. 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
Dover Limonite MineIron, ManganesePast ProducerLimonite, Siderite
Dover Limonite MineIron, ManganesePast Producer
Wingdale Pit and PlantPeatPast ProducerPeat
Dover MineIronPast Producer
Dover Mine/Foss Ore BedIronPast ProducerResidual
Foss' Ore BedIronPast Producer
Foss' Ore Bed White Iron Mine Dover MineIronPast Producer1835
Dover Furnace PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dover Furnace Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dover MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Storms near this property

1 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dover Plains, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2002: 1 hail. 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
May 2002HailDover Plains-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dutchess 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.

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 14000981 in Record Group 79.
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.