Photograph of Tuxedo station — Photograph by Jared Kofsky, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Tuxedo Park Railroad Station

Built in 1885. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

“Tuxedo station is an active commuter railroad station in the town of Tuxedo, Orange County, New York. Located on the eastern side of State Route 17 south of East Village Road, the station serves trains of Metro-North Railroad's Port Jervis Line, which operates between Port Jervis station in Port Jervis, New York and Hoboken Terminal in Hoboken, New Jersey.”
Wikipedia article Tuxedo station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1885, by Bruce Price.

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. NY 17, Tuxedo, 10987
When was it listed? December 2000
Category. building
Town. Tuxedo town
When was it built? 1885
Architect. Bruce Price
National Register reference number. 00001529 - 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

250 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 250 fires within 5 miles of Tuxedo Park Railroad Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,204 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 38 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	152
Arson/incendiarism	38
Recreation and ceremony	23
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Smoking	6
Natural	5
Debris and open burning	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	16 acres	New York Forest Rangers	ISLAND POND
8 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Tuxedo Park Railroad Station: 23 past producers, 5 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Graphite, Peat, 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
Crystal Run Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sterling Peat	Peat	Past Producer	Peat
Suffern Deposit	Graphite	Prospect
Alice Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Augusta Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Bering Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Bering/Morehead Mines	Iron	Past Producer	Magnetite
Brennan Deposit	Iron	Prospect
Crawford and Steele Mines	Iron	Past Producer	1792
Crossway Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1793

Every working recorded in Orange County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

1891 USGS Ramapo quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Ramapo quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1910 USGS Ramapo quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1931 USGS Ramapo quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1931 USGS Ramapo quadrangle1:48000
1938 USGS Ramapo quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Sloatsburg quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Middletown 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
Tuxedo Park	1.0 miles	1980
Southfield Furnace Ruin	4.2 miles	1973
Sterling Mountain Fire Observation Tower and Observer's Cabin	4.8 miles	2006
Boulders, The	6.5 miles	2001
Checkerboard Inn	7.4 miles	2006
Arden	8.0 miles	1966

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00001529 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orange County	All 187 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.