Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.
From the record
“The Masten-Quinn House is located on First Street in the village of Wurtsboro, New York, United States. It is a wooden Greek Revival house built in two phases in the 1820s, the center of a farm that remained working until the mid-20th century.”
Wikipedia article Masten-Quinn House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 79 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.03000046- 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
220 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 220 fires within 5 miles of Masten-Quinn House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,240 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 48 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
94
Arson/incendiarism
48
Debris and open burning
28
Smoking
18
Natural
13
Equipment and vehicle use
7
Misuse of fire by a minor
6
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Recreation and ceremony
3
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 federal mineral resources record lists
11 workings within 5 miles of Masten-Quinn House: 5 producers, 5 past producers, 1 prospect.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc, Lead, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Wurtsboro, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.
A cluster of thunderstorms became severe near the Delaware river and moved through southern portions of the county, producing scattered wind damage. Trees and wires were downed in Wurtsboro around 1210 pm EDT and in Bloomingburg about 1215 pm.
An isolated severe thunderstorm dropped hail the size of tennis balls in Wurtsboro, damaging several cars. Other reports of golf ball-size hail were received from Wurtsboro around the same time.
A severe thunderstorm developed over the region and produced severe winds. This storm resulted in trees being knocked over and wires being forced down.
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.
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.
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