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Photograph of Caspar Getman Farmstead
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Caspar Getman Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“Caspar Getman Farmstead is a historic home and related farm outbuildings located near Stone Arabia in Montgomery County, New York. It includes the main house and ell, two lateral-entry English barns, a New World Dutch barn, limestone smokehouse, and former chicken coop.”

Wikipedia article Caspar Getman Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 62 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 2010 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Address. 1311 Stone Arabia Rd, Stone Arabia, 13339
  • When was it listed? August 2010
  • Category. building
  • Town. Palatine town
  • National Register reference number. 10000594 - 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

88 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Caspar Getman Farmstead between 2000 and 2020, burning about 77 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 20 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/undetermined42
Arson/incendiarism20
Natural12
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning5
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 September 2020Natural5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
18 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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 Caspar Getman Farmstead: 4 producers, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Garnet, Quartz. 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
Spraker's Basin DepositGarnet, QuartzOccurrence
Coddington BankSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mohawk Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Randall PittSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Weaver's PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this property

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stone Arabia, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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
July 2025Thunderstorm WindStone Arabia-A tree was downed and blocking Stone Arabia Road in the Town of Mohawk.
April 2024FloodStone Arabia-Flooding was reported along New York Route 5 between Mckinley Road near Palatine Bridge and Reservoir Road.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindStone Arabia-A tree nearly leveled a house in Canajoharie with trees reported down on several other streets in the town.
August 2014Flash FloodStone Arabia-State Route 10 at Groff Road in Stone Arabia was closed due to flash flooding from thunderstorm heavy rainfall.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery County

Maps showing this location

10 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
Reformed Dutch Church of Stone Arabia2.3 miles1977
Trinity Lutheran Church and Cemetery2.6 miles2005
Van Wie Farmstead2.9 miles2011
County Farm3.2 miles1982
US Post Office-Canajoharie3.6 miles1988
Palatine Bridge Freight House3.6 miles1973

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 10000594 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montgomery CountyAll 62 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.