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Alpine, The

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

One of 101 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 2023 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 5430 NY 23A, Hunter, 12436
  • When was it listed? August 2023
  • Category. building
  • Town. Hunter town
  • National Register reference number. 100009189 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1892 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Alpine, The, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet covering Alpine, The, surveyed 1892

Fires near this property

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Alpine, The between 1992 and 2020, burning about 64 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined25
Debris and open burning20
Recreation and ceremony15
Natural9
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking5
Other causes2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
4 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersDIBBLES UNATTEND CAMPFIRE
2 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersBUTTERMILK FALLS FIRE
2 September 1993Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
13 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersEAST KILL FIRE
3 August 2015Smokingunder an acreNew York Forest RangersPOET'S LEDGE FIRE
3 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Alpine, The: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar. 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
Batchellerville Garnet PitFeldsparPast Producer

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this property

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hunter, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2001Thunderstorm WindHunter$12,000no account filed
October 1995Thunderstorm WindHunter$5,000no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindHunter-Two trees were reported down in the town of Hunter.
October 2017Heavy RainHunter-Social Media reported 7 inches of heavy rainfall.
February 2006Thunderstorm WindHunter-A tree was blown down in Hunter during a thunderstorm.
July 1995HailHunter-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greene 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.

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
Aaron Haines Family Cemetery0.5 miles2018
Ulster and Delaware Railroad Station0.7 miles1996
Twilight Park Historic District1.0 miles2007
Tannersville Main Street Historic District1.5 miles2008
Hathaway1.6 miles2008
Frank D. Layman Memorial2.1 miles2003

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100009189 in Record Group 79.
Greene CountyAll 101 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.