Built in 1799. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. 23 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1885.
From the record
“Columbia Turnpike-East Tollhouse is a 1799-built toll house along New York State Route 23 east of Mitchell Street and Mansfield Road in the Town of Hillsdale, New York. It operated along the Columbia Turnpike until 1907 when it was turned over to the county and then the state, which designated the road as New York State Route 23.”
Wikipedia article Columbia Turnpike-East Tollhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 155 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 2016 · category: Building · built in 1799.
National Register reference number. 16000411 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
77 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Columbia Turnpike East Tollhouse
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 130 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 15 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
37
Arson/incendiarism
15
Debris and open burning
14
Smoking
5
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Natural
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
15 workings within 5 miles of Columbia Turnpike East Tollhouse: 13 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Zinc, Zinc, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Hillsdale, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 21 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flood, 1 flash flood.
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.
A National Weather Service storm survey examined thunderstorm wind damage in the town of Hillsdale. Trees were downed on Hunt Road near Orchard Road. In addition, numerous other trees were downed in a northwest to southeast arc towards the Massachusetts State Line due to a series of thunderstorm microbursts. Some of the downed trees damaged homes and power lines as well.
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.
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.
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.
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