Built in 1795 (vernacular architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.
From the record
“Gurnee-Sherwood House, also known as the Gurnee-Onderdonck House, is a historic home located at Wesley Hills in Rockland County, New York. It was built about 1795, and is a L-shaped, vernacular brick dwelling with stone ends.”
Wikipedia article Gurnee-Sherwood House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 93 National Register listings published here for Rockland County · listed in 2011 · category: Building · built in 1795, vernacular architecture.
National Register reference number.11000451- 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
1,367 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1,367 fires within 5 miles of Gurnee-Sherwood House
between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,127 acres in total. 54 started naturally. 170 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
727
Smoking
213
Arson/incendiarism
170
Recreation and ceremony
66
Natural
54
Equipment and vehicle use
46
Debris and open burning
42
Misuse of fire by a minor
33
Power generation/transmission/distribution
14
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Gurnee-Sherwood House: 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Graphite, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
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.
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.
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