Fort Schuyler

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

“Fort Schuyler is a preserved 19th century fortification in the New York City borough of the Bronx. Luce Library, and the Marine Transportation Department and Administrative offices of the State University of New York Maritime College.”
Wikipedia article Fort Schuyler, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 91 National Register listings published here for Bronx County · listed in 1976 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Throgs Neck at East River and Long Island Sound, New York
When was it listed? June 1976
Category. district
Borough. The Bronx
National Register reference number. 76001206 - 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

1891 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 104 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 Schuyler, surveyed 1995

Topographic sheet covering Fort Schuyler, surveyed 1891

Fires near this property

1,511 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,511 fires within 5 miles of Fort Schuyler between 2000 and 2020, burning about 344 acres in total. 107 started naturally. 76 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	1068
Natural	107
Smoking	90
Arson/incendiarism	76
Recreation and ceremony	65
Debris and open burning	40
Equipment and vehicle use	34
Power generation/transmission/distribution	15
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
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
9 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2015	Natural	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.9 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Bronx County

Maps showing this location

15 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.

1891 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500
1897 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1898 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500 - 16 printings
1947 USGS Flushing quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Flushing quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1966 USGS Flushing quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1995 USGS Flushing 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
House at 175 Belden Street	2.3 miles	1982
Grace Episcopal Church	2.5 miles	2006
Public School 17	2.9 miles	1984
Middletown Plaza	3.3 miles	2024
St. Peter's Church, Chapel and Cemetery Complex	3.5 miles	1983
Westchester Square Station (Dual System IRT)	3.6 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76001206 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bronx County	All 91 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.