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Photograph of Easton Friends North Meetinghouse
Photograph by Mark Kozlowski, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Easton Friends North Meetinghouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Easton Friends North Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house located at North Easton in Washington County, New York. It was built in 1838 and is a one-story, rectangular brick structure with a gable roof.”

Wikipedia article Easton Friends North Meetinghouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Washington 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. NY 40, Schaghticoke-Middle Falls Rd., Middle Falls, 12834
  • When was it listed? October 2005
  • Category. building
  • Town. Easton town
  • National Register reference number. 05001132 - 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.

Then and now

1900 to 1989

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Easton Friends North Meetinghouse, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet covering Easton Friends North Meetinghouse, surveyed 1900

Fires near this property

137 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Easton Friends North Meetinghouse between 1993 and 2020, burning about 122 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined78
Debris and open burning26
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
8 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
21 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
11 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
10 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 August 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Washington 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 Easton Friends North Meetinghouse: 6 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Dolomite, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Peckham Materials Corp.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Schuylerville DepositSilicaPast ProducerSedimentary
Bald Mountain DepositLimestone, GeneralOccurrenceLimestone
Middle Falls QuarryLimestone, General, DolomitePast ProducerDolomite, Limestone
Plant Number 31Limestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Unnamed OccurrenceLimestone, General, DolomitePast Producer1845
Unnamed OccurrenceLimestone, General, DolomitePast Producer1845
Unnamed OccurrenceLimestone, GeneralPast Producer1845

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

9 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Middle Falls, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
July 2001Thunderstorm WindMiddle Falls$15,000no account filed
May 2025Thunderstorm WindMiddle Falls-A 911 call center operator reported trees and wires down along Route 40 south of Greenwich.
July 2022HailMiddle Falls-One inch hail observed at the Washington County Fairgrounds.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindMiddle Falls-Trees and wires were downed in the Town of Greenwich including Pulp Mill Lane, State Route 29 and State Route 77.
July 2021Flash FloodMiddle Falls-There were numerous areas of several inches of standing water and water rushing over the road from other roads along New York routes 29 and 40.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindMiddle Falls-Wires were reported down.
February 2016FloodMiddle Falls-County Route 113 near Greenwich was closed due to flooding from heavy rainfall occurring over a frozen ground. The roadway was reported to have been washed away due to the flooding.
August 2011FloodMiddle Falls-Record flooding occurred on the Battenkill. Route 29 over the Batten Kill in Middle Falls was closed due to flooding. The Battenville river gage located on the right bank downstream from the bridge on County Highway 61, 1.8 miles downstream from Whitaker Brook, and 2 miles upstream from Trout Brook exceeded its 12 foot flood stage at 12:28 am EST August 29th, its 14 foot moderate flood stage at 6:38 am, crested at 14.27 feet at 8:45 am August 29th, and then dropped below flood stage at 12:05 am August 30th. At a level of 11 feet, water begins to overflow onto nearby farmland.
April 2007FloodMiddle Falls-Significant snowmelt led to moderate flooding of the Hudson River at Schuylerville. The river crested at 92.8 feet at 0600 EST on April 25th, and remained above the flood stage of 90 feet through April 30th.

Every storm recorded in Washington County

Maps showing this location

12 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
Village of Greenwich Historic District3.0 miles1995
Burton Hall3.3 miles2015
DeRidder Homestead3.4 miles1974
Baker-Merrill House4.6 miles2006
Thomson District No. 10 School5.0 miles2024
Greenwich District School No. 115.2 miles2020

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05001132 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington CountyAll 52 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.