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Photograph of Munson Diner
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Munson Diner

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.

From the record

“Munson Diner is a historic diner located at Liberty in Sullivan County, New York. It was manufactured in 1945 by the Kullman Dining Car Company of Lebanon, New Jersey.”

Wikipedia article Munson Diner, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 2006 · 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. Lake St. (NY 55), Liberty, 12754
  • When was it listed? April 2006
  • Category. building
  • Town. Liberty town
  • Architectural style. Moderne architecture
  • National Register reference number. 06000256 - 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

166 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 166 fires within 5 miles of Munson Diner between 1997 and 2020, burning about 200 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 22 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/undetermined93
Arson/incendiarism22
Debris and open burning22
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural5
Other causes5
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2012Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 August 2014Smoking2.4 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this property

17 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Liberty, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2006Flash FloodLiberty$25,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindLiberty$10,000A thunderstorm moved into the area Monday afternoon and quickly became severe. The thunderstorm knocked trees and wires down from Roscoe to Liberty to Monticello.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindLiberty$7,000no account filed
July 2008Flash FloodLiberty$5,000A spotter reported 2.14 inches of rain in 24 hours ending at 7 a.m., then another 2 inches from 7 a.m. to 930 a.m. Parts of a roadway were washed away below this location.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindLiberty$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and wires in Liberty and Harris.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindLiberty$3,000Trees and wires were blown down.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindLiberty$2,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree and wires near the intersection of Buckley Street and West Street.
May 2018Funnel CloudLiberty-Spotter reported a funnel cloud and pea sized hail.
July 2009Heavy RainLiberty-One hour rainfall measured 1.12 inches.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindLiberty-Trees down.
June 1995HailLiberty-An isolated severe thunderstorm dumped hail up to three-quarters inch in Liberty during the afternoon of June 14th.
June 2011HailLiberty-no account filed
June 2011HailLiberty-no account filed
June 2011HailLiberty-no account filed
June 2009HailLiberty-no account filed
August 2009HailLiberty-no account filed
June 2008HailLiberty-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan County

Maps showing this location

11 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
St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church0.2 miles1997
Town and Country Building0.2 miles2004
Liberty Downtown Historic District0.3 miles2006
Liberty Village Historic District0.4 miles1978
Shelburne Playhouse1.4 miles2004
Ferndale School1.4 miles2005

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 06000256 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sullivan CountyAll 79 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.