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Jacob Sloat House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.
From the record
“The Jacob Sloat House, originally called Harmony Hall, is located on Liberty Rock Road in Sloatsburg, New York, United States. Built in the late 1840s, it is a wooden house that shows the transition from the waning Greek Revival style to the newer Picturesque and Italianate modes.”
Wikipedia article Jacob Sloat House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 93 National Register listings published here for Rockland County · listed in 2006 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.06001144- 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
579 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 579 fires within 5 miles of Jacob Sloat House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,099 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 67 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
293
Smoking
90
Arson/incendiarism
67
Recreation and ceremony
54
Equipment and vehicle use
23
Natural
17
Debris and open burning
12
Other causes
8
Power generation/transmission/distribution
8
Misuse of fire by a minor
6
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
48 workings within 5 miles of Jacob Sloat House: 41 past producers, 5 prospects, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Graphite. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
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.
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.
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