William Miller Chapel and Ascension Rock

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“The William Miller Farm is a historic farm property on County Road 11 in Hampton, New York. It is a historic district that encompasses the home of William Miller, who was a Baptist preacher credited with beginning the mid-nineteenth century North American religious movement that was known as the Millerites.”
Wikipedia article William Miller Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1975 · category: District.

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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Miller, William, Chapel and Ascension Rock - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. W of Fair Haven on SR 11, Fair Haven, 12887
When was it listed? July 1975
Category. district
Town. Hampton town
National Register reference number. 75001233 - 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.

Fires near this property

40 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of William Miller Chapel and Ascension Rock between 1998 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 8 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	18
Arson/incendiarism	8
Natural	7
Debris and open burning	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
21 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
2 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 July 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
23 June 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 39 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 39 workings within 5 miles of William Miller Chapel and Ascension Rock: 26 producers, 13 past producers. 26 still produce. What was taken out: Slate, Dimension, Stone, Dimension, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Arana Marble Co. Mine	Limestone, General	Past Producer	1897
Eureka Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Alliance and Bungaloo Quarries	Stone, Dimension	Producer	Metamorphic
Blissville Slate Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer	Metamorphic
Boston Quarry, Taran Bros.	Stone, Dimension	Producer	Metamorphic
Eagle Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer	Metamorphic
Eureka Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer	Metamorphic
Evergreen Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer	Metamorphic
Fair Haven Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer	Metamorphic
Fedro Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer	1925

Every working recorded in Washington County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

1893 USGS Whitehall quadrangle1:62500
1895 USGS Whitehall quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Whitehall quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1902 USGS Whitehall quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1946 USGS Thorn Hill quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Thorn Hill quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Whitehall quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1959 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Ticonderoga quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Ticonderoga quadrangle1:100000 - 2 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
William Miller Farm Historic District (Boundary Increase)	under 500 feet	1994
Home Farm	3.8 miles	2008
Judge Joseph Potter House	5.1 miles	1974
Main Street Historic District	5.2 miles	1975
Whitehall Armory	5.3 miles	1995
Whitehall Fire Station	5.3 miles	2018

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75001233 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington County	All 52 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.