Stony Kill Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“Stony Kill Farm Environmental Education Center is located on NY 9D in the Town of Fishkill, New York, United States. It is a 1,000+ acre (3 km2) working farm owned by the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) as an environmental education center.”
Wikipedia article Stony Kill Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 266 National Register listings published here for Dutchess County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. W of Fishkill on NY 9D, Fishkill, 12524
When was it listed? March 1980
Category. building
Town. Fishkill town
National Register reference number. 80002601 - 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

1893 to 1993

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 Stony Kill Farm, surveyed 1993

Topographic sheet covering Stony Kill Farm, surveyed 1893

Fires near this property

607 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 607 fires within 5 miles of Stony Kill Farm between 1992 and 2020, burning about 776 acres in total. 42 started naturally. 87 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	317
Arson/incendiarism	87
Smoking	65
Natural	42
Debris and open burning	30
Equipment and vehicle use	25
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Recreation and ceremony	12
Power generation/transmission/distribution	12
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
7 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 44 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 44 workings within 5 miles of Stony Kill Farm: 34 past producers, 10 producers. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Iron, 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
Clinton Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Probably Serpentine Marble Rock Quarry No. Hk-022	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer	Marble
Graphite Mine No. Hk-019	Graphite	Past Producer	Graphite
Graphite Mine No. Hk-019	Graphite	Past Producer
Serpentine Marble Quarry	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer
Serpentine Marble Quarry	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer
Limestone Rock Quarries No. Hj-018	Stone	Past Producer
Limestone Rock Quarry No. Hj-021	Stone	Past Producer
Limestone Rock Quarry No. Hj-025	Stone	Producer
Probably Serpentine Marble Rock Quarry No. Hk-023	Stone	Past Producer	Marble, Serpentine

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Storms near this property

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fishkill, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 18 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Fishkill	$100,000	no account filed
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	East Fishkill	$100,000	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Fishkill	$13,000	no account filed
September 2003	Tornado (F1)	Fishkill	$10,000	A cold front spawned a line of heavy showers across eastern New York during the early morning hours of September 28. A cell broke loose from the line and became a super cell that spawned a tornado of F0-f! intensity across Fishkill, Dutchess County. The length was a little over a mile and the width varied greatly between 25 and 100 yards. Most of the damage was to trees, but some wires were blown down and a transformer blew up. Flying debris shattered a window in a home. No injuries were reported with this tornado.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Fishkill	$10,000	On the evening of May 9, a single cell thunderstorm became severe as it moved over Dutchess county. Wind gusts from the storm knocked large tree limbs and power lines down in the village of Fishkill.
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Fishkill	$5,000	Severe thunderstorm winds downed trees in the Fishkill area late on the 28th of August. Lightning was responsible for damage to a porch in Binghamton and for starting a fire which caused serious damage to a vacant house in Freehold.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	East Fishkill	$5,000	no account filed
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Fishkill	$5,000	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Fishkill	$4,000	An isolated severe thunderstorm, which developed well ahead of a cold front downed trees and wires in Fishkill.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Fishkill	$4,000	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	East Fishkill	$1,000	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Fishkill	$1,000	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Fishkill	$1,000	no account filed
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	East Fishkill	-	Tree and wires were downed on Palen Road near Hararigan Road resulting in a blocked road.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	East Fishkill	-	A tree was downed on the Taconic State Parkway blocking the right northbound lane.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	East Fishkill	-	Emergency dispatch reported trees down.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Fishkill	-	Wires were reported down on Route 9 in Fishkill as a result of thunderstorm winds.
June 2011	Hail	East Fishkill	-	Golf ball size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in East Fishkill.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	East Fishkill	-	Trees were reported down in East Fishkill due to strong thunderstorm winds.
May 2008	Hail	East Fishkill	-	Nickel size hail was reported in East Fishkill.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	East Fishkill	-	Trees were reported down in East Fishkill due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2005	Flash Flood	Fishkill	-	L Street closed due to flooding.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	East Fishkill	-	Trees were blown down.
May 2004	Hail	Fishkill	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Fishkill	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Fishkill	-	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	East Fishkill	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dutchess County

Maps showing this location

14 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.

1893 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1903 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1936 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:48000
1943 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Wappinger Falls quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Wappingers Falls quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000

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
Zion Pilgrim Methodist Episcopal Church Site	0.8 miles	2014
Saint Mark's Episcopal Church	1.6 miles	1987
Chelsea Grammar School	1.6 miles	1987
Cornelius Carman House	1.7 miles	1987
Capt. Moses W. Collyer House	1.8 miles	1987
Fishkill Village District	2.0 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80002601 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dutchess County	All 266 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.