Forestburgh Town Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1922.

From the record

“Forestburgh Town Hall is a historic town hall located at Forestburgh in Sullivan County, New York. It was built in 1929 and is a small, rectangular wood-frame building sheathed in novelty wood siding.”
Wikipedia article Forestburgh Town Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 2011 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 305 Cty Rd. 48, Forestburgh, 12777
When was it listed? May 2011
Category. building
Town. Forestburgh town
National Register reference number. 11000278 - 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

74 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Forestburgh Town Hall between 1998 and 2020, burning about 172 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 9 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
Debris and open burning	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Smoking	9
Arson/incendiarism	9
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
5 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
29 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2013	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
1 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
24 August 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
12 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 July 2020	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	New York Forest Rangers	BAER RD FIRE

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

1922 USGS White Lake quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1942 USGS White Lake quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:125000
1943 USGS White Lake quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1944 USGS White Lake quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Highland Lake quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Chevro Ahavath Zion Synagogue	6.4 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000278 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sullivan County	All 79 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.