Silver Lake Dam

Built in 1840. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1909.

From the record

“Silver Lake Dam is located off Silver Lake Road, just outside the village of Woodridge, New York, United States. It was built in the 1840s to regulate Sandburg Creek, which provided water to the summit of the Delaware and Hudson Canal 10 miles (16 km) to the southeast.”
Wikipedia article Silver Lake Dam, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 2000 · category: Structure · built in 1840.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Silver Lake Rd., Woodridge, 12789
When was it listed? June 2000
Category. structure
Town. Fallsburg town
When was it built? 1840
National Register reference number. 00000585 - 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

118 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Silver Lake Dam between 1998 and 2020, burning about 268 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 14 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	46
Debris and open burning	19
Arson/incendiarism	14
Natural	12
Smoking	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4

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
24 September 2014	Smoking	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
11 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
9 August 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 August 2012	Natural	4.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Silver Lake Dam: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Goodwin Sand and Gravel, Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Maston Lake Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Maston Lake Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this property

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodridge, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodridge	$14,000	no account filed
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodridge	$10,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees between Broadway and Mountain Dale Road.
June 2013	Flash Flood	Woodridge	$5,000	County Route 42 was flooded.
June 2013	Flash Flood	Woodridge	$5,000	A brook was overflowing into the Village Park Bungalows.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodridge	$3,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodridge	$3,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires across the road.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Woodridge	$2,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a trees and wires.
May 2000	Hail	Woodridge	-	1 inch diameter hail was reported along with trees and wires down from thunderstorm winds.
June 2009	Hail	Woodridge	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan County

Maps showing this location

12 surveys

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.

1909 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500
1911 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1966 USGS Woodridge quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000 - 2 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
Ohave Shalom Synagogue	1.3 miles	2000
Hebrew Congregation of Mountaindale Synagogue	1.4 miles	2001
Glen Wild Methodist Church	3.1 miles	1984
Anshei Glen Wild Synagogue	4.1 miles	1999
South Fallsburg Hebrew Association Synagogue	4.1 miles	2000
Rivoli Theatre	4.5 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000585 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sullivan County	All 79 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.
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.