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Spring House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1913.

From the record

“Spring House is a historic inn located at Barryville in Sullivan County, New York. It was built as a residence about 1880 and almost immediately enlarged as a hotel and boarding house.”

Wikipedia article Spring House (Barryville, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 2009 · 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

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 54 River Rd., Barryville, 12719
  • When was it listed? December 2009
  • Category. building
  • Town. Highland town
  • National Register reference number. 09000970 - 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

1913 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Spring House, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet covering Spring House, surveyed 1913

Fires near this property

117 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Spring House between 1998 and 2020, burning about 183 acres in total. 9 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
Debris and open burning51
Arson/incendiarism22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Natural9
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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
2 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
28 August 2015Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 July 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this property

8 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barryville, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2004 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
August 2004Flash FloodBarryville$500,000Several road washouts along State Route 97 in western Sullivan County near Barryville. A culvert was damaged on Buff Road in the town of Cochecton. On August 14th, but due to the rain on the 12th, a private bridge collapsed off Aukerman Road in the town of Tusten. A large sink hole developed when a car drove over the bridge. The car fell into the sink hole. Localized rainfall amounts were 2 to 4 inches.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindBarryville$15,000Strong thunderstorm winds brought down a swath of trees.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindBarryville$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindBarryville$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires near Roeblings Bridge.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindBarryville$2,000Several trees were blown down.
December 2006Thunderstorm WindBarryville$2,000Trees and wires were blown down.
June 2006FloodBarryville-no account filed
August 2005HailBarryville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan 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

3 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
Minisink Battlefield2.7 miles1993
Tusten Stone Arch Bridge7.4 miles2000
Ten Mile River Baptist Church7.5 miles1997

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 09000970 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.