Van Houten's Landing Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Van Houten's Landing Historic District is a national historic district located at Upper Nyack in Rockland County, New York. It encompasses 50 contributing buildings and two contributing structures in the historic core of Upper Nyack.”
Wikipedia article Van Houten's Landing Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Rockland County · listed in 2004 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. North Broadway, School St., Ellen St., Castle Heights Ave., Van Houten St., Village of Upper Nyack, 10960
When was it listed? August 2004
Category. district
Town. Clarkstown town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture, Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 04000877 - 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

1,276 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,276 fires within 5 miles of Van Houten's Landing Historic District between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,308 acres in total. 96 started naturally. 78 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	766
Smoking	184
Natural	96
Arson/incendiarism	78
Recreation and ceremony	59
Equipment and vehicle use	45
Debris and open burning	36
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Other causes	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Rockland County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Van Houten's Landing Historic District: 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Silver, Iron, Chromium, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Sing Sing Ag Mine	Lead, Silver, Iron, Copper	Past Producer
Sing Sing Silver Mine	Lead, Copper, Silver, Iron, Chromium, Phosphorus-Phosphates	Past Producer	Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Silver
Sparta Copper Deposit	Copper, Lead	Occurrence
West Nyack Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
West Nyack Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Rockland County

Maps showing this location

16 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.

1892 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1902 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1937 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:24000
1937 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1940 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:24000
1942 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:31680
1943 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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
Upper Nyack Firehouse	under 500 feet	1982
First Methodist Episcopal Church of Nyack	0.2 miles	1998
Brookside	0.5 miles	2012
Edward Hopper Birthplace and Boyhood Home	0.5 miles	2000
Shadowcliff	0.7 miles	2014
John Green House	0.7 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000877 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rockland County	All 93 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.