Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.
From the record
“Reed Memorial Library is located at the junction of US 6 and NY 52 in Carmel, New York, United States. It is the oldest library building in Putnam County, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”
Wikipedia article Reed Memorial Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 49 National Register listings published here for Putnam County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.80002749- 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
414 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 414 fires within 5 miles of Reed Memorial Library
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 419 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 56 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
184
Arson/incendiarism
56
Smoking
42
Debris and open burning
40
Natural
35
Equipment and vehicle use
17
Power generation/transmission/distribution
17
Recreation and ceremony
11
Misuse of fire by a minor
9
Other causes
3
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
31 workings within 5 miles of Reed Memorial Library: 23 past producers, 5 prospects, 3 occurrences.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Copper, Sulfur, Arsenic, Iron, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Carmel, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 16 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail.
The reports record 7 injuries. 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.
Local police reported that many trees in Brewster had been knocked over. In Carmel, severe winds toppled a tree on top of a vehicle parked in a driveway. Approximately 25,000 customers suffered a power interruption due to this storm.
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.
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.
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.
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