Tallman-Budke and Vanderbilt-Budke-Traphagen Houses

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Rockland County · listed in 2017 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. 131 Germonds Rd., Clarkstown, 10954
When was it listed? July 2017
Category. district
Town. Clarkstown town
National Register reference number. 100001266 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

2,309 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,309 fires within 5 miles of Tallman-Budke and Vanderbilt-Budke-Traphagen Houses between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,699 acres in total. 121 started naturally. 187 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	1359
Smoking	352
Arson/incendiarism	187
Natural	121
Recreation and ceremony	102
Equipment and vehicle use	86
Debris and open burning	52
Misuse of fire by a minor	33
Power generation/transmission/distribution	15
Other causes	1
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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	6.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Rockland County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Tallman-Budke and Vanderbilt-Budke-Traphagen Houses: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Haverstraw Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Haverstraw Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
West Nyack Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
West Nyack Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Rockland County

Maps showing this location

16 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.

1892 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1902 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1937 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:24000
1937 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1940 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:24000
1942 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:31680
1943 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Nyack quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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
Blauvelt-Cropsey Farm	1.3 miles	2017
Mount Moor African-American Cemetery	2.0 miles	1994
Rockland County Courthouse and Dutch Gardens	2.1 miles	1991
Philadelphia Toboggan Company Carousel Number 15	2.1 miles	2001
Terneur-Hutton House	2.4 miles	1973
H.R. Stevens House	2.5 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100001266 in Record Group 79.
Rockland County	All 93 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.