Brown Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“The Brown Farmstead is located on Browns Road in the Town of Montgomery, east of Walden, in Orange County, New York, United States. The farmhouse was built about 1834, and is a two-story, side passage Greek Revival style.”
Wikipedia article Brown Farmstead, 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

Address. 238 Browns Rd., Walden, 12586
When was it listed? December 2005
Category. building
Town. Montgomery town
National Register reference number. 05001383 - 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

438 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 438 fires within 5 miles of Brown Farmstead between 1993 and 2020, burning about 324 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 47 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	265
Arson/incendiarism	47
Debris and open burning	36
Smoking	28
Natural	21
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Recreation and ceremony	8
Fireworks	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Other causes	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
8 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
5 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2014	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Storms near this property

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walden, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Walden	4 hurt	no account filed
June 1998	Lightning	Walden	$40,000	no account filed
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Walden	$7,000	Several large tree limbs down with medium sized trees snapped.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Walden	$7,000	Three 60-70 ft tall trees down on Sherman Avenue between Union Street and East Avenue.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Walden	$3,000	Several trees and power lines were reported down across the town of Walden.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Walden	$1,000	A tree was reported down at the intersection of Madison and Second Street in Walden.
August 2017	Flash Flood	Walden	-	East Main Street in Walden was closed due to flooding.
June 2009	Hail	Walden	-	Hail ranging from dime to quarter size was reported in Walden.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Walden	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked a tree down onto a house.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Walden	-	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Walden	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orange County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

1903 USGS Newburg quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1903 USGS Newburgh quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1942 USGS Walden quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Walden quadrangle1:31680
1946 USGS Newburgh quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Walden quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Monticello 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
Colden Hill Farm	0.7 miles	2020
Colden Mansion Ruins	0.9 miles	2007
Colden Family Cemetery	1.1 miles	2005
Nathaniel Hill Brick House	1.9 miles	1978
Benjamin Haines House	2.2 miles	1996
St. Andrew's Cemetery	2.4 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05001383 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.
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.