Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.
From the record
“The Akin Free Library on Quaker Hill is a historic eclectic late Victorian stone building in the hamlet of Quaker Hill, town of Pawling, Dutchess County, New York, USA, listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a historic place of local significance since 1991.”
Wikipedia article Akin Free Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 266 National Register listings published here for Dutchess County · listed in 1991 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.91001726- 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 1998
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18931998
Fires near this property
128 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Akin Free Library
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 263 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 11 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
86
Arson/incendiarism
11
Debris and open burning
8
Recreation and ceremony
6
Natural
5
Smoking
5
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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
11 workings within 5 miles of Akin Free Library: 7 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Manganese. 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
Pawling, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 19 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flood, 1 tornado.
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.
Heavy rainfall led to flooding across portions of Dutchess county. Several roads were closed, including Route 199 near Red Hook, Route 292 in Pawling, and Route 22 in Millerton.
A strong cold front moved through eastern New York during the evening of April 24th resulting in severe thunderstorms across parts of the area. Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines across parts of Sullivan, Ulster, and Dutchess Counties. Hardest hit were the towns of Pawling and Marlboro where over 5,000 customers were left without power.
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.
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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