Fury Brook Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.

From the record

“Fury Brook Farm, also Bairdlea Farm, is located on King's Highway in the Town of Chester, New York, United States, just north of the hamlet of Sugar Loaf. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004 to help protect the land around it from development.”
Wikipedia article Fury Brook Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 2004 · 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 4 structuress, 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf, 10918
When was it listed? September 2004
Category. building
Town. Chester town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 04000995 - 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

483 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 483 fires within 5 miles of Fury Brook Farm between 1993 and 2020, burning about 359 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 82 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	214
Arson/incendiarism	82
Debris and open burning	65
Smoking	54
Misuse of fire by a minor	26
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Recreation and ceremony	10
Natural	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3

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	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
8 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
6 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Fury Brook Farm: 6 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Bull Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Clove Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Mombasha Mine/O'Neill/Forshee/Clove Mines	Iron	Past Producer	Magnetite
Chester Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Chester Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Chester Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Chester Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Kakargo Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Trout Brook Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Orange County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

1906 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1908 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1938 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:31680
1946 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Middletown quadrangle1:100000 - 2 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
Sugar Loaf Historic District	0.6 miles	2024
Yelverton Inn and Store	2.1 miles	1980
First Presbyterian Church of Chester	2.1 miles	1998
Randel, Culver House and Mill	3.9 miles	1998
Mortimer L. Mapes House & Seward Homestead	4.0 miles	2011
William Henry Seward Memorial	4.0 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000995 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orange County	All 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.