Storm King Highway

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“The Storm King Highway is a three-mile (4.8 km) segment of New York State Route 218 (NY 218) between Lee Road in the Town of Highlands at the south end and the Cornwall-on-Hudson village line in Orange County, New York, in the United States. It was built in 1916 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 in recognition of its accomplishment in civil engineering.”
Wikipedia article Storm King Highway, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1982 · category: Structure.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. NY 218, Highlands, 10996
When was it listed? November 1982
Category. structure
Also known as. Hudson Highlands MRA
Town. Highlands town
National Register reference number. 82001229 - 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

332 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 332 fires within 5 miles of Storm King Highway between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,442 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 36 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	187
Natural	37
Arson/incendiarism	36
Smoking	21
Recreation and ceremony	16
Debris and open burning	15
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Storm King Highway: 18 past producers, 5 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Clay. 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
Bog Meadow Pond Deposit	Zirconium	Occurrence
Canopus Mine	Iron, Titanium	Past Producer	1912
Canopus Nelson Magnetite Mine	Iron, Titanium, Metal	Past Producer	1912
Constitution Island Occurrence	Molybdenum	Occurrence
Kinnaird Graphite Property Deposit	Graphite	Occurrence
Clay Pit No. Hk-020	Clay	Past Producer	Clay
Clay Pit No. Hk-020	Clay	Past Producer
Granitic Gneiss Rock Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Granitic Gneiss Rock Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Granitic Gneiss Rock Quarry No. Hk-021	Stone	Past Producer	Gneiss, Granite

Every working recorded in Orange 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.

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 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
U.S. Military Academy	1.1 miles	1966
Highland Falls Railroad Depot	2.5 miles	1982
Church of the Holy Innocents and Rectory	2.5 miles	1982
Deer Hill	2.5 miles	1982
House at 116 Main Street	2.6 miles	1982
LeDoux/Healey House	2.6 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82001229 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orange County	All 187 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.