Roosa House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 2025 · 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.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 882 Berme Road, High Falls (Marbletown), 12440
When was it listed? July 2025
Category. building
Town. Marbletown town
National Register reference number. 100011986 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

223 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 223 fires within 5 miles of Roosa House between 1993 and 2020, burning about 4,077 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 22 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	121
Debris and open burning	25
Arson/incendiarism	22
Smoking	20
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Natural	12
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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
6 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
5 September 2005	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 September 2005	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
16 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Roosa House: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Abrasive. 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
Accord Stone and Lime Company	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Diamond Productions/ Clifton, N.J.	Abrasive	Unknown
Krom Road Gravel Bank	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1901 USGS Rosendale quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Rosendale quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1942 USGS Mohonk Lake quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Mohonk Lake quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Mohonk Lake quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Monticello 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
Rest Plaus Historic District	0.9 miles	1995
Lock Tender's House and Canal Store Ruin	1.3 miles	1998
High Falls Historic District	1.5 miles	1998
Jacobus Van Wagenen Stone House	1.5 miles	1999
Van Wagenen Stone House and Farm Complex	1.7 miles	1999
Alligerville Historic District	1.9 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100011986 in Record Group 79.
Ulster County	All 209 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.