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Photograph of Dundas Castle
Photograph by Peter Bond from Philadelphia, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Dundas Castle

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1921.

From the record

“Dundas Castle, also called Craig-e-Clair, is a neo-Gothic house near Roscoe in Sullivan County, New York. It was built between 1910 and 1924 for Ralph Wurts-Dundas.”

Wikipedia article Dundas Castle (Roscoe, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 2001 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. Berry Brook Rd., Roscoe, 12776
  • When was it listed? March 2001
  • Category. district
  • National Register reference number. 01000245 - 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

27 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Dundas Castle between 1998 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
27 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 August 2008Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
18 July 2020Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
8 May 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 May 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
16 May 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this property

14 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roscoe, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2005 and 2024: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 2013HailRoscoe1 hurt, $10,000Person injured by falling hail at the campground in Roscoe as he was trying to seek shelter in bath house at campground.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindRoscoe$22,500A microburst occurred in Roscoe, NY. The microburst went down a hillside and downed numerous trees in a uniform direction. Some additional damage from downed trees occurred on a few residential properties on Dutch Hill road. The microburst |ended before reaching Dutch Hill road.
July 2018Flash FloodRoscoe$15,000Tennanah Lake Creek was flooding County Route 92 with nearly 18 inches of rushing water. Water was flowing into Roscoe.
October 2021Flash FloodRoscoe$5,000Numerous roads were flooded with water rescues underway.
August 2009Flash FloodRoscoe$5,000Flash flooding occurred at Roscoe Campground.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindRoscoe$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires.
May 2013HailRoscoe$5,000no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindRoscoe$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down some trees.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindRoscoe$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and wires.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindRoscoe$1,000A thunderstorm moved into the area Monday afternoon and quickly became severe. The thunderstorm knocked a tree over which took down electric wires.
June 2008HailRoscoe-Nickel size hail was also reported.
May 2018HailRoscoe-no account filed
May 2013HailRoscoe-no account filed
December 2006HailRoscoe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan County

Maps showing this location

11 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

4 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
Beaverkill Covered Bridge2.0 miles2007
Rockland Mill Complex2.9 miles1984
Roscoe Presbyterian Church and Westfield Flats Cemetery3.8 miles2001
Aqudas Achim Synagogue6.0 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 01000245 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sullivan CountyAll 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.
  • 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.