Garrison Grist Mill Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“The Garrison Grist Mill Historic District is a 13.4-acre (5.4 ha) parcel of Highlands Country Club located at the southwest corner of the intersection of NY 9D and Lower Station Road in Garrison, New York, United States. It contains three buildings, including the titular gristmill (believed to be one of the oldest in the county, and a dam, all dating to the colonial era or the early years of American independence.”
Wikipedia article Garrison Grist Mill Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 49 National Register listings published here for Putnam County · listed in 1993 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Jct. of NY 9D and Upper Station Rd., Garrison Four Corners, 10524
When was it listed? December 1993
Category. district
Town. Philipstown town
National Register reference number. 93001434 - 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

407 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 407 fires within 5 miles of Garrison Grist Mill Historic District between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,852 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 51 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	219
Arson/incendiarism	51
Natural	38
Smoking	31
Equipment and vehicle use	22
Debris and open burning	20
Power generation/transmission/distribution	15
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
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 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
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 Putnam County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Garrison Grist Mill Historic District: 21 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.

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
Cotton Rock Stilbite Deposit	Zeolites	Occurrence
Kinnaird Graphite Property Deposit	Graphite	Occurrence
Phillips Mine	Molybdenum, Uranium	Occurrence	Replacement
Phillips Mine	Sulfur-Pyrite, Iron, Uranium	Past Producer	1865, 1880
Phillips Mine-Camp Smith Area	Cobalt, Copper, Gold, Nickel, Silver, Uranium	Past Producer	1866
Phillips Sulfide, Magnetite Mine	Iron, Uranium, Copper, Gold, Nickel, Silver, Sulfur	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Putnam County

Maps showing this location

16 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.

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 quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Peekskill quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS West Point quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Peekskill quadrangle1:24000 - 6 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
Birches, The	0.1 miles	1982
Wilson House	0.1 miles	1982
Mandeville House	0.1 miles	1982
Rock Lawn and Carriage House	0.4 miles	1982
Castle Rock	0.5 miles	1977
Hurst-Pierrepont Estate	0.5 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93001434 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Putnam County	All 49 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.