West Point Foundry

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“The West Point Foundry was a major American ironworking and machine shop concern, located in Cold Spring, New York, United States. Initiated after the War of 1812, it became most famous for its production of Parrott rifle artillery and other munitions during the Civil War, although it also manufactured a variety of iron products for civilian use.”
Wikipedia article West Point Foundry, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 49 National Register listings published here for Putnam County · listed in 1973 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. Foundry Cove between NY 90 and NY Central RR tracks, Cold Spring, 10516
When was it listed? April 1973
Category. district
Town. Philipstown town
National Register reference number. 73001250 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

324 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 324 fires within 5 miles of West Point Foundry between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,139 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 40 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	173
Arson/incendiarism	40
Natural	37
Smoking	19
Debris and open burning	15
Recreation and ceremony	15
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
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 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
6 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Putnam County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 42 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of West Point Foundry: 32 past producers, 6 occurrences, 3 producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Titanium, Metal. 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
Constitution Island Occurrence	Molybdenum	Occurrence
Croft Magnetite Mine	Iron, Sulfur	Past Producer	Magnetite, Pyrite
Croft Mine	Iron, Sulfur	Past Producer
Denny Mine	Titanium, Iron	Prospect
Hustis Quarry	Titanium	Occurrence
Kinnaird Graphite Property Deposit	Graphite	Occurrence
Probably Serpentine Marble Rock Quarry No. Hk-022	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer	Marble
Canopus Mine	Iron, Titanium	Past Producer	1912
Clay Pit No. Hk-020	Clay	Past Producer	Clay

Every working recorded in Putnam 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
Cold Spring Historic District	0.2 miles	1982
Grove, The	0.3 miles	2008
Fair Lawn	0.4 miles	1982
First Baptist Church of Cold Spring	0.5 miles	1982
House at 249 Main Street	0.5 miles	1989
J. Y. Dykman Store	0.5 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73001250 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Putnam County	All 49 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.