Dunning House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.

From the record

“The Dunning House is located on Ridgebury Road in the Town of Wawayanda, New York, United States. It is a wooden house first built in the mid-18th century and extensively renovated several times in the 19th.”
Wikipedia article Dunning House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange 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. 633 Ridgebury Rd., Wawayanda, 10973
When was it listed? December 2001
Category. building
Town. Wawayanda town
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 01001383 - 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

374 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 374 fires within 5 miles of Dunning House between 1995 and 2020, burning about 254 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 40 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	267
Arson/incendiarism	40
Natural	25
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Debris and open burning	14
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
7 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Dunning House: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Goshen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Goshen Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Merion Blue-Grass Sod Farm Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pellets Island Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pellets Island Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Westtown Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Westtown Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Orange County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

1906 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1908 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1938 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Middletown quadrangle1:24000
1946 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS Middletown quadrangle1:24000 - 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
Primitive Baptist Church of Brookfield	0.9 miles	1976
Woodlawn Farm	1.3 miles	2008
Webb Horton House	4.0 miles	1990
Sawyer Farmhouse	4.1 miles	2005
Hillside Cemetery	4.3 miles	1994
Paramount Theatre	4.5 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01001383 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.