Haxtun-Tower House

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1893 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Haxtun-Tower House between 1993 and 2020, burning about 197 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 28 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Haxtun-Tower House: 34 past producers, 8 producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hopewell Junction, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 2 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.

Every storm recorded in Dutchess County

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.

• 1893 USGS Clove quadrangle1:62500
• 1894 USGS Clove quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Clove quadrangle1:62500
• 1901 USGS Clove quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
• 1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Poughquag quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Poughquag 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

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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Murphy Grist Mill	0.5 miles	2015
	Storm-Adriance-Brinckerhoff House	2.9 miles	2008
	Beekman Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery	3.2 miles	1989
	Beekman Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery	3.2 miles	1989
	Bykenhulle	3.8 miles	1991
	Shear Homestead	4.4 miles	2021