Photograph of United States Military Academy grounds and facilities — Photograph by USMA Public Affairs Office, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

U.S. Military Academy

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“The United States Military Academy and grounds were declared a National Historic Landmark in 1960 due to the Revolutionary War history and the age and historic significance of the academy itself. The majority of the buildings in the central cadet area are historic.”
Wikipedia article United States Military Academy grounds and facilities, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1966 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. NY 218, West Point, 10996
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. district
Town. Highlands town
National Register reference number. 66000562 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

346 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 346 fires within 5 miles of U.S. Military Academy between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,377 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 38 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	199
Arson/incendiarism	38
Natural	35
Smoking	19
Recreation and ceremony	15
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Debris and open burning	14
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	3.8 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of U.S. Military Academy: 21 past producers, 6 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Sulfur, Stone. 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
Bog Meadow Pond Deposit	Zirconium	Occurrence
Canopus Mine	Iron, Titanium	Past Producer	1912
Canopus Nelson Magnetite Mine	Iron, Titanium, Metal	Past Producer	1912
Constitution Island Occurrence	Molybdenum	Occurrence
Cotton Rock Stilbite Deposit	Zeolites	Occurrence
Croft Magnetite Mine	Iron, Sulfur	Past Producer	Magnetite, Pyrite
Kinnaird Graphite Property Deposit	Graphite	Occurrence
Phillips Mine	Sulfur-Pyrite, Iron, Uranium	Past Producer	1865, 1880
Phillips Mine-Camp Smith Area	Cobalt, Copper, Gold, Nickel, Silver, Uranium	Past Producer	1866
Phillips Sulfide, Magnetite Mine	Iron, Uranium, Copper, Gold, Nickel, Silver, Sulfur	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Orange 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
Storm King Highway	1.1 miles	1982
Highland Falls Railroad Depot	1.4 miles	1982
Church of the Holy Innocents and Rectory	1.4 miles	1982
House at 116 Main Street	1.5 miles	1982
First Presbyterian Church of Highland Falls	1.5 miles	1982
Highland Falls Village Hall	1.6 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000562 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orange County	All 187 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.