Photograph of Fort Tompkins — Photograph by Unknown photographer, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fort Tompkins Quadrangle

Built in 1861. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“Fort Tompkins is a fort on Staten Island in New York City, within what is now Fort Wadsworth at the Narrows. Fort Tompkins guarded the landward approaches to other forts in the area from 1808 through circa 1898.”
Wikipedia article Fort Tompkins (Staten Island), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 63 National Register listings published here for Richmond County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · built in 1861.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Building 137, Fort Wadsworth, New York
When was it listed? July 1974
Category. building
Borough. Staten Island
When was it built? 1861
National Register reference number. 74001300 - 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 Fort Tompkins Quadrangle, surveyed 1998

Topographic sheet covering Fort Tompkins Quadrangle, surveyed 1898

Fires near this property

328 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 328 fires within 5 miles of Fort Tompkins Quadrangle between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,142 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 16 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	264
Natural	25
Arson/incendiarism	16
Smoking	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Debris and open burning	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	1

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 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	145 acres	Gateway National Recreation Area	GREAT KILLS BLOWUP
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.9 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Gateway National Recreation Area	GKP7
6 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Richmond 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
Orchard Shoal Light Station, Old	2.0 miles	2006
West Bank Light Station	2.4 miles	2007
Miller Army Air Field Historic District	4.4 miles	1980
Poillon-Seguine-Britton House	5.0 miles	1984
Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. Farmhouse	5.4 miles	2020
St. Alban's Episcopal Church	5.9 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001300 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Richmond County	All 63 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.