Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.
From the record
“The Squirrels is a historic estate located at Highland Falls in Orange County, New York. It was built about 1845 and is a two-story frame and clapboard structure with a multi-gabled roof.”
Wikipedia article The Squirrels (Highland Falls, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.82001226- 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
380 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 380 fires within 5 miles of Squirrels, The
between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,843 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 47 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
214
Arson/incendiarism
47
Natural
38
Smoking
25
Equipment and vehicle use
18
Debris and open burning
16
Power generation/transmission/distribution
15
Recreation and ceremony
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
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
30 workings within 5 miles of Squirrels, The: 20 past producers, 7 occurrences, 3 producers.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Sulfur, 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
Highland Falls, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 11 flash flood, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain.
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.
A car traveling on Route 9W in Highland Falls hydroplaned from the heavy rain, spun off the road, hit a rock and then hit the guard rail. A passenger in the back seat, who was pregnant, was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at Cornwall Hospital. Two other passengers also sustained minor injuries. A Cocorahs observer in Cold Spring, 4 miles NE of the accident in Putnam County, reported 5.29 inches of total rainfall.
Route 218 was closed in both directions between West Point Academy and the Cornwall line due to flooding. A National Weather Service Cooperative Observer reported a storm total rainfall amount of 2.00 inches in West Point.
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.
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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