Robert W. and Mary F. McCready House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Rockland County · listed in 2011 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 6 structuress, 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. McCready, Robert W. and Mary F., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 139 Orange Tnpk., Sloatsburg, 10974
When was it listed? October 2011
Category. building
Town. Ramapo town
National Register reference number. 11000708 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

535 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 535 fires within 5 miles of Robert W. and Mary F. McCready House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,116 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 65 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	271
Smoking	83
Arson/incendiarism	65
Recreation and ceremony	45
Equipment and vehicle use	22
Natural	16
Debris and open burning	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Other causes	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
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
9 September 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Jersey Forest Fire Service	not named
7 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Rockland County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 49 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 49 workings within 5 miles of Robert W. and Mary F. McCready House: 42 past producers, 5 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Graphite. 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
Sterling Peat	Peat	Past Producer	Peat
Suffern Deposit	Graphite	Prospect
Suffern Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Crystal Run Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
McKee Bros Sand and Gravel Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Mount Ivy Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Mount Ivy Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Alice Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Augusta Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Bering Mine	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Rockland County

Storms near this property

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sloatsburg, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2000: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2000	Heavy Rain	Sloatsburg	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rockland 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.

1891 USGS Ramapo quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Ramapo quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1910 USGS Ramapo quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1931 USGS Ramapo quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1931 USGS Ramapo quadrangle1:48000
1938 USGS Ramapo quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Sloatsburg quadrangle1:24000 - 2 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
Sloat's Dam and Mill Pond	0.5 miles	2000
Jacob Sloat House	0.6 miles	2006
Old Sloatsburg Cemetery	0.8 miles	1999
Sloat House	0.9 miles	1974
Torne Brook Farm	2.2 miles	1988
Brook Chapel	2.8 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000708 in Record Group 79.
Rockland County	All 93 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.