Mortimer L. Mapes House & Seward Homestead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.

From the record

One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 2011 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Mapes, Mortimer L., House & Seward Homestead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 35 N Main St, Florida, 10921
When was it listed? November 2011
Category. building
Town. Warwick town
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 10000942 - 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

305 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 305 fires within 5 miles of Mortimer L. Mapes House & Seward Homestead between 1995 and 2020, burning about 354 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 39 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	166
Arson/incendiarism	39
Smoking	39
Debris and open burning	18
Natural	11
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Recreation and ceremony	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
6 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Mortimer L. Mapes House & Seward Homestead: 6 past producers, 5 producers, 3 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Gemstone, Titanium, Zirconium. 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
Edenville Fluorite Deposit	Fluorine-Fluorite, Gemstone, Titanium, Zirconium	Occurrence
Goshen Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Goshen Quarry and Mill	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Edenville Rutile Deposit	Titanium	Occurrence
Edenville Rutile Deposit	Titanium	Occurrence
Chester Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Chester Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Chester Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Chester Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Goshen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this property

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Florida, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 4 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
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Florida	$10,000	Tree down on a house on South Main Street.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Florida	$3,000	Trees reported down at Wheeler Road and Dusenburg Drive. Time estimated by radar.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Florida	-	no account filed
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Florida	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orange 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.

1906 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1908 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1938 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:31680
1946 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Middletown quadrangle1:100000 - 2 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
William Henry Seward Memorial	0.1 miles	1999
Randel, Culver House and Mill	0.5 miles	1998
District School No. 9	2.9 miles	1988
Sawyer Farmhouse	3.0 miles	2005
Sugar Loaf Historic District	3.8 miles	2024
Fury Brook Farm	4.0 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000942 in Record Group 79.
Orange County	All 187 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.