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Photograph of Miller Field
Photograph by Jim.henderson, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Miller Army Air Field Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“Miller Field was a United States Army facility in the neighborhood of New Dorp, Staten Island, New York. It was founded in November 1919 and completed in 1921.”

Wikipedia article Miller Field (Staten Island), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 63 National Register listings published here for Richmond County · listed in 1980 · 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 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. New Dorp Lane, New York
  • When was it listed? April 1980
  • Category. district
  • Borough. Staten Island
  • National Register reference number. 80000362 - 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 Miller Army Air Field Historic District, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet covering Miller Army Air Field Historic District, surveyed 1898

Fires near this property

1,952 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,952 fires within 5 miles of Miller Army Air Field Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,897 acres in total. 192 started naturally. 144 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/undetermined1409
Natural192
Arson/incendiarism144
Smoking73
Debris and open burning37
Equipment and vehicle use34
Recreation and ceremony21
Fireworks18
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Other causes2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2010Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Richmond County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Miller Army Air Field Historic District: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cooper & Hewitt MineIronPast Producer
New Dorp MineIronPast Producer
Tyson MineIronPast Producer
Tyson's Mine & 2 Additional MinesIronPast ProducerResidual

Every working 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Vanderbilt Family Cemetery and Mausoleum2.0 miles2021
Billou-Stillwell-Perine House2.0 miles1976
Moore-McMillen House2.4 miles1980
Jacques Marchais Center of Tibetan Art2.4 miles2009
Staten Island Light2.5 miles2005
New Dorp Light2.5 miles1973

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80000362 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Richmond CountyAll 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.
  • 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.