Windfall Dutch Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“Windfall Dutch Barn is a historic barn located in Salt Springville, Montgomery County, New York at the corner of Clinton Road and Ripple Road. This barn was used as a resting place during the wagon march by General Clinton on the way to the Susquehanna River, consisting of 400 boats, loaded on wagons, and 3000 patriots, during the revolutionary war.”
Wikipedia article Windfall Dutch Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 62 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Clinton Rd., jct. with Ripple Rd., Salt Springville, 13339
When was it listed? November 2000
Category. building
Town. Minden town
National Register reference number. 00001411 - 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

33 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Windfall Dutch Barn between 2004 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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	15
Debris and open burning	6
Arson/incendiarism	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
21 September 2015	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 August 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 June 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
9 May 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 May 2006	Arson/incendiarism	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 May 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1898 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Canajoharie quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Sprout Brook quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1945 USGS Sprout Brook quadrangle1:31680
1947 USGS Sprout Brook quadrangle1:25000
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

3 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
John Smith Farm	5.4 miles	2012
Ames Academy Building	7.5 miles	2002
US Post Office-Fort Plain	7.9 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00001411 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montgomery County	All 62 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.