Casemate Fort, Whiting Quadrangle

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“Casemate Fort, Whiting Quadrangle, also known as "Old Casemate," Officers Club Bldg. #207, Sentry Booth #220, and Fort Hamilton Community Club, is a historic building located in Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, New York, New York. The old fort was designed in 1819 and built between 1825 and 1836.”
Wikipedia article Casemate Fort, Whiting Quadrangle, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 207 National Register listings published here for Kings County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Fort Hamilton, off NY 27, New York, 11209
When was it listed? August 1974
Category. building
Borough. Brooklyn
National Register reference number. 74001249 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1898 to 1998

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.

Topographic sheet covering Casemate Fort, Whiting Quadrangle, surveyed 1998

Topographic sheet covering Casemate Fort, Whiting Quadrangle, surveyed 1898

Fires near this property

1,868 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,868 fires within 5 miles of Casemate Fort, Whiting Quadrangle between 1992 and 2020, burning about 735 acres in total. 156 started naturally. 143 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	1292
Natural	156
Arson/incendiarism	143
Smoking	105
Debris and open burning	57
Equipment and vehicle use	47
Fireworks	34
Recreation and ceremony	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3

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 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2014	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Kings County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Casemate Fort, Whiting Quadrangle: 3 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Lead. 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
N L Industries/ Brooklyn. N.Y.	Lead	Unknown
Roosevelt Metal/ Brooklyn, N.Y.	Lead	Unknown
Cooper & Hewitt Mine	Iron	Past Producer
D Smith Steel/ Brooklyn, N.Y.	Iron	Unknown
New Dorp Mine	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Kings County

Maps showing this location

17 surveys

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.

1898 USGS Staten Island quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000
1900 USGS Staten Island quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1905 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000 - 4 printings
1942 USGS Passaic quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1947 USGS The Narrows quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1949 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS The Narrows quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Newark quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1966 USGS The Narrows quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1984 USGS Newark quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Newark quadrangle1:100000
1998 USGS The Narrows quadrangle1:24000

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
Brooklyn VA Hospital Historic District	0.4 miles	2022
Saitta House	1.0 miles	2007
Bay Ridge Reformed Church	1.4 miles	2020
New Utrecht Reformed Church Complex (Boundary Increase)	1.4 miles	2001
Senator Street Historic District	1.4 miles	2002
New Utrecht Reformed Church and Buildings	1.7 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001249 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kings County	All 207 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.