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Jacob T. Walden Stone House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Walden Stone House is on North Montgomery Street near the intersection with Wait Street in Walden, New York. It was built around 1785, around the time the thousand-acre Gatehouse Patent was first sold, and is one of the oldest houses remaining in the area.”

Wikipedia article Jacob T. Walden Stone House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange 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

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Walden, Jacob T., Stone House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. N. Montgomery St., Walden, 12586
  • When was it listed? March 2002
  • Category. building
  • Town. Montgomery town
  • National Register reference number. 02000138 - 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

293 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 293 fires within 5 miles of Jacob T. Walden Stone House between 1993 and 2020, burning about 219 acres in total. 13 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/undetermined169
Arson/incendiarism40
Debris and open burning31
Smoking16
Natural13
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Fireworks4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1

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
8 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Jacob T. Walden Stone House: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Geiger Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Geiger Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this property

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walden, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 4 injuries. 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
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWalden4 hurtno account filed
June 1998LightningWalden$40,000no account filed
August 2020Thunderstorm WindWalden$7,000Several large tree limbs down with medium sized trees snapped.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindWalden$7,000Three 60-70 ft tall trees down on Sherman Avenue between Union Street and East Avenue.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindWalden$3,000Several trees and power lines were reported down across the town of Walden.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindWalden$1,000A tree was reported down at the intersection of Madison and Second Street in Walden.
August 2017Flash FloodWalden-East Main Street in Walden was closed due to flooding.
June 2009HailWalden-Hail ranging from dime to quarter size was reported in Walden.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindWalden-Thunderstorm winds knocked a tree down onto a house.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindWalden-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindWalden-no account filed

Every storm 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church & Rectory0.3 miles2008
John R. Hays House0.6 miles2002
Bodine Farmhouse0.6 miles2006
Glibert Millspaugh House0.6 miles2005
Dubois-Phelps House0.7 miles1997
Peachcroft1.9 miles1995

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02000138 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orange CountyAll 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.
  • 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.