Wheeler Hill Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“Wheeler Hill Historic District is a federally recognized historic district located at Wappinger in Dutchess County, New York. Along the eastern shore of the Hudson River, atop of the Van Wyck Ridge is the "estates region of the Town of Wappinger".”
Wikipedia article Wheeler Hill Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 266 National Register listings published here for Dutchess County · listed in 1991 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Wheeler Hill Rd., Wappinger, 12590
When was it listed? June 1991
Category. district
Town. Wappinger town
National Register reference number. 91000678 - 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.

Then and now

1893 to 1993

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Wheeler Hill Historic District, surveyed 1993

Topographic sheet covering Wheeler Hill Historic District, surveyed 1893

Fires near this property

526 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 526 fires within 5 miles of Wheeler Hill Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 958 acres in total. 46 started naturally. 94 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	233
Arson/incendiarism	94
Smoking	56
Natural	46
Debris and open burning	27
Equipment and vehicle use	25
Misuse of fire by a minor	18
Power generation/transmission/distribution	13
Recreation and ceremony	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	3

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
8 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
7 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Wheeler Hill Historic District: 23 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Clinton Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Limestone Rock Quarries No. Hj-018	Stone	Past Producer
Limestone Rock Quarry No. Hj-016	Stone	Producer	Unknown
Limestone Rock Quarry No. Hj-017	Stone	Past Producer
Limestone Rock Quarry No. Hj-021	Stone	Past Producer
Cedar Cliff Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Clay Pit No. Hj-019	Clay	Producer	Clay
Clay Pit No. Hj-019.	Clay	Past Producer
Clay Pit No. Hj-022	Clay	Past Producer	Clay
Clay Pit No. Hj-022	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Maps showing this location

14 surveys

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.

1893 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1903 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1936 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:48000
1943 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Wappinger Falls quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Wappingers Falls quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000

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
Main Street Historic District	0.7 miles	1987
William Shay Double House	0.7 miles	1987
Shay's Warehouse and Stable	0.7 miles	1987
Stone Street Historic District	0.7 miles	1987
Union Free School	0.7 miles	1987
Zion Memorial Chapel	0.7 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000678 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.