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Photograph of Tripp House and Store Complex
Photograph by Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Tripp House and Store Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

One of 101 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 6 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. NY 81, Durham, 12460
  • When was it listed? March 2001
  • Category. building
  • Town. Durham town
  • National Register reference number. 01000240 - 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

103 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Tripp House and Store Complex between 1994 and 2020, burning about 78 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 18 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/undetermined48
Arson/incendiarism18
Debris and open burning16
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 August 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
8 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Storms near this property

12 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Durham, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 1 hail, 1 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2002Thunderstorm WindDurham$10,000no account filed
September 2023LightningDurham$1,000Lightning struck a home on Allen Teator Road.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindDurham-A local 911 call center operator reported trees and wires down in town of Durham.
October 2021FloodDurham-Minor flooding was reported along Route 145 in the Town of Durham.
October 2021FloodDurham-Stone Bridge Road was closed between Brown Road and Shady Glen Road near East Durham due to flooding.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindDurham-Trees and wires were downed in the Town of Durham.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindEast Durham-Trees and wires were downed on Route 67 in Durham.
June 2011HailEast Durham-Penny size hail (measured) was reported during a thunderstorm in East Durham.
August 2011FloodDurham-Route 145 was closed due to flooding from Route 20 in Schoharie County through southwestern Albany County to Route 23 in Greene County. Much of Route 145 runs along the Catskill Creek.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindDurham-Trees and wires were blown down.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindDurham-Trees down
June 2004Thunderstorm WindDurham-Trees down.

Every storm recorded in Greene 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Parsonage, Theunder 500 feet2005
Oak Hill Methodist Episcopal Churchunder 500 feet2006
Mrs. Osburn Houseunder 500 feet2001
A. T. House0.1 miles2006
Charles Pierce House0.1 miles2001
L.E. Cleveland House0.2 miles2001

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 01000240 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greene CountyAll 101 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.
  • 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.