Sawyer Farmhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.

From the record

“The Sawyer Farmhouse is the residence of the family of the same name, on Maple Avenue in the Town of Goshen, New York, United States, at the edge of the Black Dirt Region. It was built about 1780, and is a two-story, five-bay, Federal style frame dwelling updated about 1860 in a picturesque Italianate style.”
Wikipedia article Sawyer Farmhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 2005 · 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 2 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 178 Maple Ave., Goshen, 10924
When was it listed? June 2005
Category. building
Town. Goshen town
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 05000636 - 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

323 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 323 fires within 5 miles of Sawyer Farmhouse between 1995 and 2020, burning about 241 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 44 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	196
Arson/incendiarism	44
Debris and open burning	18
Natural	16
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Smoking	15
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
7 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
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 2016	Debris and open burning	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
4 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
3 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2007	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

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Sawyer Farmhouse: 5 producers, 3 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Goshen Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Goshen Quarry and Mill	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Chester Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Goshen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Goshen Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Merion Blue-Grass Sod Farm Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pellets Island Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pellets Island Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this property

39 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goshen, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 30 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 2 hail, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	$10,000	Trees and wires were reported down, including one tree that fell on a house.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	$5,000	Picture of large tree snapped and on house in Goshen NY.
December 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	$5,000	Multiple trees were reported down on overhead wires in Goshen.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	$3,000	Tree and wires down in Goshen.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	$3,000	Trees down on Orange Avenue in Goshen.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	$3,000	Trees down on South Street in Goshen.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	$3,000	Poles and wires down on Orange Avenue in Goshen.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	$3,000	Trees and wires were reported down throughout the town of Goshen.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	$2,000	Wires down in town.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	$2,000	Picture of multiple trees down near McNally Street in Goshen NY.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	$2,000	Wires down on Greenwich Avenue and Main Street and Hill Street in Goshen.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	$2,000	Multiple downed trees were reported in Goshen.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	$1,500	New York Route 17A near Gibson Road was closed due to tree limbs and branches across the road.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	$1,000	Downed tree on 17A, just past Greenwich Avenue and US6.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	$1,000	Tree down on NY 17M at the intersection of NY 17 blocking all lanes.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	$750	Tree limbs were reported down at 7 Good Time Court in Goshen.
July 2023	Flash Flood	Goshen	-	Fire Department reporting multiple homes with basement flooding in Goshen.
September 2021	Flash Flood	Goshen	-	NY 17M was closed in both directions due to flooding between South Street and Duck Farm Road in Goshen.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	High winds downed several trees in and around the town of Goshen.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	A peak wind gust to 60 mph was estimated by a trained spotter in Goshen.
August 2011	Flood	Goshen	-	Local authorities performed a water rescue of a female passenger who was stuck in a vehicle filling with water near exit 125 on Route 17 in Goshen.
August 2011	Flood	Goshen	-	Route 17M near Goshen was closed due to flooding.
August 2008	Hail	Goshen	-	Penny size hail was reported in Goshen, covering the ground in places, and destroying flower and vegetable gardens.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	Branches down.
November 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	An unusually strong cold front moved into the Lower Hudson Valley Thanksgiving morning. Thunderstorms developed along this cold front, and were accompanied by strong gusty winds at a few locations. Thunderstorm winds brought down trees and billboards on Route 17 and Harriman Drive in Goshen. Reports of damage to commercial buildings were also received. About 3 miles west of Goshen, in the town of New Hampton, the same line of thunderstorms tore apart a small barn owned by a farmer, and scattered the pieces a hundred yards from where the barn originally stood. Several large trees were uprooted in New Hampton as well. About 3,300 customers in Central Orange County experienced power outages due to the thunderstorm's winds.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	Police reported that strong gusty winds knocked down large tree limbs and damaged a house.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	A thunderstorm downed some trees and power lines.
September 2003	Flash Flood	Goshen	-	no account filed
August 2003	Flash Flood	Goshen	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Goshen	-	no account filed
January 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	no account filed
July 1996	Flash Flood	Goshen	-	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	no account filed
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	no account filed
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Goshen	-	no account filed

Every storm 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
1942 USGS Pine Island quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Pine Island quadrangle1:31680
1946 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS Pine Island quadrangle1:24000
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
District School No. 9	1.6 miles	1988
Randel, Culver House and Mill	2.7 miles	1998
Everett-Bradner House	3.0 miles	2004
Mortimer L. Mapes House & Seward Homestead	3.0 miles	2011
George T. Wisner House	3.0 miles	2005
William Henry Seward Memorial	3.1 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000636 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.
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.