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Photograph of Woodlawn Farm
Photograph by Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Woodlawn Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.

From the record

“Woodlawn Farm, sometimes known as the Wood Homestead, is located on Mount Orange Road, a short distance north of Slate Hill, New York, United States. It is centered by a three-section farmhouse whose materials date to the mid-18th century, making it one of the oldest buildings in the Town of Wawayanda.”

Wikipedia article Woodlawn Farm (Slate Hill, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 2008 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. 20 Mount Orange Rd., Slate Hill, 10973
  • When was it listed? April 2008
  • Category. building
  • Town. Wawayanda town
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 08000277 - 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

385 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 385 fires within 5 miles of Woodlawn Farm between 1995 and 2020, burning about 257 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 36 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/undetermined280
Arson/incendiarism36
Natural26
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking9
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
8 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Woodlawn Farm: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Merion Blue-Grass Sod Farm PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pellets Island PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pellets Island Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Westtown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Westtown Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this property

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Slate Hill, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2013Thunderstorm WindSlate Hill$1,000,000A tree was downed on Jogee Road.
May 1998Flash FloodSlate Hill$200,000no account filed
June 2021LightningSlate Hill$6,000Smoke seen in building from a lightning strike.
September 2018Flash FloodSlate Hill-Emergency Services reported flooding in Gardnerville due to 6-12 inches of running water over County Route 12 at Gardnerville Road. The road was briefly impassable.
September 2011FloodSlate Hill-In Washingtonville, Rt. 208 was closed south of Rt. 94 due to flooding. NY State Rt. 211 was closed in both directions between Kaisertown Rd. and Rt. 416 in Montgomery and US 6 was closed in both directions at highway 284 in Slate Hill also due to flooding.
September 2003Thunderstorm WindSlate Hill-As a severe thunderstorm moved from Northern New Jersey into Orange County, New York, it produced damaging winds that knocked numerous wires down, resulting in the loss of power for portions of Slate Hill.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindSlate Hill-no account filed
May 1998HailSlate Hill-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.

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
Primitive Baptist Church of Brookfield0.4 miles1976
Dunning House1.3 miles2001
Webb Horton House4.1 miles1990
Hillside Cemetery4.2 miles1994
Hulet Clark Farmstead4.2 miles1998
Paramount Theatre4.5 miles2002

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 08000277 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orange CountyAll 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.