Photograph of Benjamin Van Keuren House Ruin — Photograph by Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Van Keuren, Benjamin House Ruin

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“The Benjamin Van Keuren House Ruin is located at the corner of Bruyn Turnpike and Benjamin van Keuren Drive in the western portion of the Town of Shawangunk, in Ulster County, New York, United States. It was the site of the house built in 1745 by Van Keuren and his wife Sarah, early settlers of the area.”
Wikipedia article Benjamin Van Keuren House Ruin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 2000 · category: Site.

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 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off of Bruyn Turnpike, Shawangunk, 12566
When was it listed? November 2000
Category. site
Town. Shawangunk town
National Register reference number. 00001424 - 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

96 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Van Keuren, Benjamin House Ruin between 1998 and 2020, burning about 2,121 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 22 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	39
Arson/incendiarism	22
Debris and open burning	11
Smoking	11
Natural	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3

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
19 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	1.6 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
26 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 July 2010	Natural	4.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1904 USGS Ellenville quadrangle1:62500
1906 USGS Ellenville quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1943 USGS Napanoch quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Napanoch quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 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
Thomas Jansen House	1.1 miles	1983
Pearl Street Schoolhouse	1.9 miles	1983
Miller's House at Red Mills	2.2 miles	1983
William Decker House	2.5 miles	1983
Dill Farm	2.5 miles	1983
Johannes Jansen House and Dutch Barn	2.7 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00001424 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ulster County	All 209 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.