Shear Homestead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

One of 266 National Register listings published here for Dutchess County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 34 Rymph Rd., Lagrangeville, 12540
When was it listed? February 2021
Category. building
Town. LaGrange town
National Register reference number. 100005479 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1893 to 1993

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Shear Homestead, surveyed 1993

Topographic sheet covering Shear Homestead, surveyed 1893

Fires near this property

295 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 295 fires within 5 miles of Shear Homestead between 2000 and 2020, burning about 243 acres in total. 44 started naturally. 35 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	142
Natural	44
Arson/incendiarism	35
Debris and open burning	31
Smoking	18
Recreation and ceremony	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4

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
7 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
25 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
10 September 2009	Smoking	1.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Shear Homestead: 32 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Clay. 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	Recorded
Probably Borrow Pit of Soft Rock Or Unconsolidated Material	Clay, Stone	Past Producer	Chert
Probably Borrow Pit of Soft Rock Or Unconsolidated Material	Stone, Clay	Past Producer	Chert
Probably Borrow Pit of Soft Rock Or Unconsolidated Material	Stone, Clay	Past Producer	Chert
Borrow Pit	Stone, Clay	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Stone, Clay	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Stone, Clay	Past Producer
Beekman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Billings Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bruzgul Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Cheer Farm Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lagrangeville, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
October 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrangeville	$2,000	A cold front crossed Eastern New York during the evening hours of the 14th. Isolated severe thunderstorms downed trees in a few locations across Dutchess County.

Every storm recorded in Dutchess County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

1893 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1903 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1936 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:48000
1943 USGS Poughkeepsie quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Pleasant Valley quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000

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
Beekman Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery	1.3 miles	1989
Beekman Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery	1.4 miles	1989
LaGrange District School	2.2 miles	2013
Storm-Adriance-Brinckerhoff House	3.7 miles	2008
Haxtun-Tower House	4.4 miles	2016
Oswego Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery	4.5 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100005479 in Record Group 79.
Dutchess County	All 266 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.