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One of 266 National Register listings published here for Dutchess County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Bannerman's Island Arsenal
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.
The listing
- Address. Pollepel Island, off NY 9-D, Fishkill
- When was it listed? November 1982
- Category. building
- Also known as. Hudson Highlands MRA
- Town. Fishkill town
- National Register reference number. 82001121 - 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
589 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 589 fires within 5 miles of Bannerman's Island Arsenal between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,249 acres in total. 42 started naturally. 54 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 | 367 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 54 |
| Natural | 42 |
| Smoking | 38 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 35 |
| Debris and open burning | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 |
| 8 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.8 acres | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 8 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 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 |
| 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 2008 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 28 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Bannerman's Island Arsenal: 21 past producers, 4 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Clay, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Constitution Island Occurrence | Molybdenum | Occurrence | ||
| Hustis Quarry | Titanium | Occurrence | ||
| 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 | ||
| Chateaugay Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1871 | |
| Serpentine Marble Quarry | Marble, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Serpentine Marble Quarry | Marble, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Serpentine Marble Quarry | Marble, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| West Point Magnetite Vein | Iron | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
27 since 1994Regional 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 |
Maps showing this location
17 surveysUnited 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.
- 1892 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1899 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500 - 12 printings
- 1936 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
- 1936 USGS West Point quadrangle1:48000
- 1941 USGS West Point quadrangle1:24000
- 1941 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1947 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS West Point quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1957 USGS West Point quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Dutchess Manor | 0.5 miles | 1982 |
 | Peter C. DuBois House | 2.1 miles | 2004 |
 | Tioronda Bridge | 2.4 miles | 1976 |
| Tioronda Estate-Craig House Historic District | 2.5 miles | 2023 | |
 | Mount Beacon Incline Railway and Power House | 3.0 miles | 1982 |
 | Mt. Beacon Fire Observation Tower | 3.0 miles | 2009 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 82001121 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.