Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.
From the record
“The Williams-DuBois House is located at Grace Lane and Pinesbridge Road in New Castle, New York, United States. It was built by an early settler of the area during the Revolutionary War.”
Wikipedia article Williams-DuBois House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 250 National Register listings published here for Westchester County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.
Architectural style. American colonial architecture
National Register reference number.89000463- 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
388 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 388 fires within 5 miles of Williams-DuBois House
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 294 acres in total. 51 started naturally. 16 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
209
Natural
51
Debris and open burning
29
Recreation and ceremony
27
Smoking
22
Equipment and vehicle use
20
Arson/incendiarism
16
Power generation/transmission/distribution
11
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
9 workings within 5 miles of Williams-DuBois House: 4 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Emery, Lead, Vanadium, Lead, Copper, Silver, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
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