Built in 1917. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.
From the record
“The Mount Tremper Fire Observation Station is a historic fire observation station located on Mount Tremper at Shandaken in Ulster County, New York. The station and contributing resources include a 47-foot-tall (14.3 m), steel frame lookout tower erected in 1917 and a jeep trail that extends from the base of the mountain to a point below its summit.”
Wikipedia article Mount Tremper Fire Observation Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 2001 · category: Structure · built in 1917, by Aermotor Windmill Company.
Also known as. Fire Observation Stations of New York State Forest Preserve MPS
Town. Shandaken town
When was it built? 1917
Architect. Aermotor Windmill Company
National Register reference number.01001032- 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.
Then and now
1900 to 1997
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19001997
Fires near this property
29 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Mount Tremper Fire Observation Station
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 172 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined
8
Smoking
6
Debris and open burning
4
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Arson/incendiarism
2
Natural
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Shandaken, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 4 flood, 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain.
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.
On Birch Creek in Pine Hill, water topping Acdemy Street Bridge, Main Street closed. Birch Creek Road washed out between Academy and Upper Birch Roads.
Minor flooding occurred on the Esopus Creek upstream of the Ashokan Reservoir. The Mount Temper/Cold Brook river gage located on the left bank at the downstream side of the bridge on Nissen Road in Coldbrook, 1.5 miles upstream from the Ashokan Reservoir, and 2.5 miles south of Mount Tremper exceeded its 11 foot flood stage at 3:44 am EST September 7th, it crested at 14.21 feet at 6:45 am (moderate flood stage is 15 feet), dropped below flood stage at 3:12 pm September 7th. It went back above flood stage at 5:57 am September 8th, crested just above flood stage at 11.79 feet at 7:45 am and dropped back below flood stage at 10:19 am September 8th.
Record flooding occurred on the Esopus Creek upstream of the Ashokan Reservoir. The Mount Temper/Cold Brook river gage located on the left bank at the downstream side of the bridge on Nissen Road in Coldbrook, 1.5 miles upstream from the Ashokan Reservoir, and 2.5 miles south of Mount Tremper exceeded its 11 foot flood stage at 4:07 am EST August 28th, its 15 foot moderate flood stage at 6:53 am, its 18 foot major flood stage at 8:17 am, and crested at a record 23.34 feet at 12 pm, then dropped below flood stage at 12:26 am August 29th. At a level of 18 feet, roads and bridges are flooded in Phoenica; at 21 feet, water reaches Route 28 and at 22 feet, the Boiceville business district is underwater.||Initially started out as flash flooding then transitioned to river flooding.
Record flooding occurred on the Esopus Creek upstream of the Ashokan Reservoir. The Mount Temper/Cold Brook river gage located on the left bank at the downstream side of the bridge on Nissen Road in Coldbrook, 1.5 miles upstream from the Ashokan Reservoir, and 2.5 miles south of Mount Tremper exceeded its 11 foot flood stage at 4:07 am EST August 28th, its 15 foot moderate flood stage at 6:53 am, its 18 foot major flood stage at 8:17 am, and crested at a record 23.34 feet at 12 pm, then dropped below flood stage at 12:26 am August 29th. At a level of 18 feet, roads and bridges are flooded in Phoenica; at 21 feet, water reaches Route 28 and at 22 feet, the Boiceville business district is underwater. Initially started out as flash flooding then transitioned to river flooding.
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.
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.
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.
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