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One of 266 National Register listings published here for Dutchess County · listed in 2016 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Walter Beckwith House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Beckwith, Walter, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 482 Jameson Hill Rd., Stanford, 12514
- When was it listed? May 2016
- Category. district
- Town. Stanford town
- National Register reference number. 16000306 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1899 to 1993The 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.
Fires near this property
154 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Walter Beckwith House between 1993 and 2020, burning about 205 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 32 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 | 69 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 32 |
| Debris and open burning | 28 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2003 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 25 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 18 September 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 14 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 11 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 11 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 1 September 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 9 August 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 17 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Walter Beckwith House: 12 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baldwin Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Baldwin Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Bangall Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Bangall Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Clinton Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Frank S. Fanelli Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Frank S. Fanelli Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Mountain Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Mountain Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Route 82 Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Maps showing this location
12 surveysUnited 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.
- 1899 USGS Millbrook quadrangle1:62500
- 1902 USGS Millbrook quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
- 1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Millbrook quadrangle1:24000
- 1947 USGS Millbrook quadrangle1:31680
- 1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Millbrook quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Clinton Corners Friends Church | 1.8 miles | 1989 |
 | Creek Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery | 1.9 miles | 1989 |
| Benjamin C. Tousey House | 2.0 miles | 1994 | |
 | Dr. Cornelius Nase Campbell House | 2.1 miles | 2007 |
 | Bangall Post Office | 2.8 miles | 2014 |
 | Bloomvale Historic District | 3.3 miles | 1991 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 16000306 in Record Group 79. |
| Dutchess County | All 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.