Built in 1663. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.
From the record
“Fort Wadsworth is a former United States military installation on Staten Island in New York City, situated on The Narrows, which divide New York Bay into Upper and Lower bays, a natural point for defense of the Upper Bay, Manhattan, and beyond. Prior to its closing in 1994, the fort was claimed to be the longest continuously garrisoned military installation in the United States.”
Wikipedia article Fort Wadsworth, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 63 National Register listings published here for Richmond County · listed in 2022 · category: District · built in 1663.
National Register reference number. 99000430 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1898 to 1998
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.
18981998
Fires near this property
1,974 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1,974 fires within 5 miles of Fort Wadsworth
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,349 acres in total. 174 started naturally. 124 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
1387
Natural
174
Arson/incendiarism
124
Smoking
103
Debris and open burning
54
Equipment and vehicle use
50
Fireworks
35
Recreation and ceremony
17
Misuse of fire by a minor
16
Power generation/transmission/distribution
6
Railroad operations and maintenance
6
Other causes
2
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
4 workings within 5 miles of Fort Wadsworth: 4 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, 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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