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Photograph of Ulster and Delaware Railroad Depot and Mill Complex
Photograph by Stephen Schweitzer, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Ulster and Delaware Railroad Depot and Mill Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Ulster and Delaware Railroad Depot and Mill Complex is a historic railroad depot and national historic district located at Roxbury in Delaware County, New York. The district contains five contributing buildings and one contributing structure.”

Wikipedia article Ulster and Delaware Railroad Depot and Mill Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 78 National Register listings published here for Delaware County · listed in 2003 · category: District.

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 5 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Depot St., Roxbury, 12474
  • When was it listed? April 2003
  • Category. district
  • Town. Roxbury town
  • National Register reference number. 03000254 - 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

35 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Ulster and Delaware Railroad Depot and Mill Complex between 1997 and 2016, burning about 34 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined14
Debris and open burning10
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
20 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 July 2009Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 June 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
13 June 2008Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 May 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this property

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roxbury, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2021Flash FloodRoxbury$30,000Town officials reported severe washouts at Teichmann Road and South Mongomery Hollow Road in the Town of Roxbury.
June 2025Flash FloodRoxbury$2,000The road was closed along Route 30 near Hubbell Corners Road due to flooding.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindRoxbury$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked wires down.
July 2010HailRoxbury-Dime to penny size hail was reported.

Every storm recorded in Delaware County

Maps showing this location

8 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
Roxbury Historic District0.3 miles2003
Main Street Historic District0.5 miles1988
Woodchuck Lodge (Burroughs, John, Home)1.1 miles1966
Second Old School Baptist Church of Roxbury1.9 miles1999
Thomson Family Farm2.7 miles2004
First Old School Baptist Church of Roxbury and Vega Cemetery3.0 miles1996

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 03000254 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Delaware CountyAll 78 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.
  • 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.