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One of 78 National Register listings published here for Delaware County · listed in 2020 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Mountain Athletic Club Grounds
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Wagner Ave. and Ballpark Ave., Fleischmanns, 12430
- When was it listed? October 2020
- Category. site
- Town. Middletown town
- National Register reference number. 100005706 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
59 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Mountain Athletic Club Grounds between 1992 and 2020, burning about 62 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 2 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 | 20 |
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 August 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 5 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 23 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 19 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 14 July 2000 | Natural | under an acre | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 14 July 2000 | Natural | 1.0 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 8 June 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 4 June 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mountain Athletic Club Grounds: 1 producer. All of them 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Town Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
9 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fleischmanns, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 5 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 hail. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2011 | Flash Flood | Fleischmanns | 1 killed, $5,000,000 | Catastrophic flash flooding occurred through the town of Fleischmanns. Homes were washed off foundations, slamming into other homes. Over 200 people were evacuated before the flash flood hit. Some people who did not evacuate had to be rescued. One woman was killed when the building she was in collapsed due to the flood waters. |
| December 2020 | Flash Flood | Fleischmanns | $10,000 | More than a foot of water was rushing down Wagner Avenue. Evacuations were being initiated. |
| December 2020 | Flash Flood | Fleischmanns | $10,000 | Depot Street flooded and closed at this time. |
| March 2010 | Flood | Fleischmanns | $10,000 | Two homes along the Bush Kill were evacuated by the Arkville Fire Department due to flooding along the Bush Kill. The Bush Kill USGS stream gauge crested at 9.95 feet at 4:30 am. This is 0.05 feet below the major flood stage of 10 feet. |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Fleischmanns | $10,000 | Road and sluice pipe flooding. |
| January 1996 | Flash Flood | Fleischmanns | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fleischmanns | $1,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto the roadway in Fleischmanns. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Fleischmanns | - | One inch diameter hail fell in Fleishmans, near Andes. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fleischmanns | - | Several trees down. |
Maps showing this location
9 surveysUnited 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.
- 1901 USGS Margaretville quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Margaretville quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
- 1945 USGS Fleischmanns quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1946 USGS Fleischmanns quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Pepacton Reservoir quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Congregation Bnai Israel Synagogue | 0.1 miles | 2002 |
 | Skene Memorial Library | 0.3 miles | 2001 |
| Max and Johanna Fleischmann House | 0.7 miles | 2022 | |
| Amelita Galli-Curci Estate | 0.8 miles | 2010 | |
 | Maxbilt Theatre | 2.9 miles | 2014 |
 | Hubbell Family Farm and Kelly's Corners Cemetery | 3.8 miles | 2001 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100005706 in Record Group 79. |
| Delaware County | All 78 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.