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Photograph of Skene Memorial Library
Photograph by Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Skene Memorial Library

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“The Skene Memorial Library is located on Main Street in Fleischmanns, New York, United States. The frame building, combining elements of the Queen Anne and Shingle architectural styles, dates to the early 20th century.”

Wikipedia article Skene Memorial Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Delaware County · listed in 2001 · 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. Main St.-Old NY 28, Fleischmanns, 12430
  • When was it listed? May 2001
  • Category. building
  • Town. Middletown town
  • Architectural style. Shingle style architecture
  • National Register reference number. 01000576 - 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

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Skene Memorial Library between 1992 and 2020, burning about 62 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined20
Debris and open burning14
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2

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
17 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
5 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 July 2000Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
14 July 2000Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
8 June 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
4 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Skene Memorial Library: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this property

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fleischmanns, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 5 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 hail. The reports record 1 death. 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
August 2011Flash FloodFleischmanns1 killed, $5,000,000Catastrophic flash flooding occurred through the town of Fleischmanns. Homes were washed off foundations, slamming into other homes. Over 200 people were evacuated before the flash flood hit. Some people who did not evacuate had to be rescued. One woman was killed when the building she was in collapsed due to the flood waters.
December 2020Flash FloodFleischmanns$10,000More than a foot of water was rushing down Wagner Avenue. Evacuations were being initiated.
December 2020Flash FloodFleischmanns$10,000Depot Street flooded and closed at this time.
March 2010FloodFleischmanns$10,000Two homes along the Bush Kill were evacuated by the Arkville Fire Department due to flooding along the Bush Kill. The Bush Kill USGS stream gauge crested at 9.95 feet at 4:30 am. This is 0.05 feet below the major flood stage of 10 feet.
May 2004Flash FloodFleischmanns$10,000Road and sluice pipe flooding.
January 1996Flash FloodFleischmanns$10,000no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindFleischmanns$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto the roadway in Fleischmanns.
May 2012HailFleischmanns-One inch diameter hail fell in Fleishmans, near Andes.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindFleischmanns-Several trees down.

Every storm recorded in Delaware County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 01000576 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Delaware CountyAll 78 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.
  • 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.