Coykendall Lodge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“Coykendall Lodge is a historic home, now in ruins, located at Hardenburgh in Ulster County, New York. It is located on the shores of Alder Lake in the Balsam Lake Wild Forest, part of the Catskill Forest Preserve.”
Wikipedia article Coykendall Lodge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. Off Alder Lake Rd., Hardenbergh, 12758
When was it listed? January 2002
Category. building
Town. Hardenburgh town
National Register reference number. 01001441 - 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

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Coykendall Lodge between 1992 and 2008, burning about 155 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	1
Natural	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
28 August 1999	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
29 June 1994	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
20 May 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	140 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
23 April 1994	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
21 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 April 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	11 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
9 October 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 October 2008	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Ulster 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 Coykendall Lodge: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gaffney Mine	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1901 USGS Margaretville quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Margaretville quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1945 USGS Arena quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1946 USGS Arena quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Grant Mills Covered Bridge	2.9 miles	1998
Balsam Lake Mountain Fire Observation Station	4.1 miles	2001
Beaverkill Valley Inn	4.6 miles	1985
Balsam Lake Mountain Fire Observation Station	5.2 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01001441 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ulster County	All 209 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.