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Photograph of Ellenville Downtown Historic District
Photograph by Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Ellenville Downtown Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Ellenville Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Ellenville, Ulster County, New York. It encompasses 52 contributing buildings and 3 contributing sites in the central business district of Ellenville.”

Wikipedia article Ellenville Downtown Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 2012 · category: District.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

155 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Ellenville Downtown Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,234 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/undetermined65
Debris and open burning26
Arson/incendiarism22
Natural12
Smoking12
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 1995Smoking2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 August 2020Recreation and ceremony1.6 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
30 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Ellenville Downtown Historic District: 3 prospects, 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Zinc, Lead, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ellenville MineZinc, LeadPast ProducerVein
Ellenville MineZinc, LeadProspect
Sun Ray Tunnel DepositZinc, LeadProspect
Town PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ulster Mine Near Spring GlenLead, ZincPast ProducerVein
Wawarsing PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Spring Glen DepositZincProspect

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this property

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellenville, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 16 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1998Thunderstorm WindEllenville1 killed, $500no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindEllenville$80,000no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindEllenville$35,000A National Weather Service survey team determined that a wet microburst occurred in Ellenville. The strong wind blew down about 30 trees, damaging 2 homes and destroying a car. The estimated cost of the damage was 35 thousand dollars.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindEllenville$5,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindEllenville$1,000no account filed
April 1995Thunderstorm WindEllenville$500no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindEllenville-A 911 call center gave multiple reports of trees down in and near the town of Ellenville.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindEllenville-Trees and wires were reported down.
September 2021Flash FloodEllenville-Route 209 at Old Minisink Trail was reported closed due to flooding.
July 2015HailEllenville-Quarter size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Ellenville.
July 2015Flash FloodEllenville-Thunderstorm heavy rainfall led to flash flooding in Ellenville. Route 209 was closed between Oak Ridge Road and Hang Glider Road as a result of the flooding.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindEllenville-Route 52 was closed in both directions in Wawarsing due to downed trees from thunderstorm winds.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindEllenville-Trees were downed due to thunderstorm winds in Ellenville.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindEllenville-A utility pole was snapped and wires were down at 826 Oakridge Road in Ellenville due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindEllenville-A tree was reported down due to thunderstorm winds in Ellenville.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindEllenville-A tree and limbs were reported down across Carl Street in Ellenville due to strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindEllenville-Trees and wires were reported down on Mountain Road just south of Ellenville due to strong thunderstorm winds.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindEllenville-Law enforcement personnel reported that trees and wires were blown down in Ellenville.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindEllenville-Trees blown down.
May 2004HailEllenville-1 inch hail covering ground reported in Village of Shawangunk.
May 2004HailEllenville-3/4 inch hail reported in Village of Shawangunk.

Every storm 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 middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 12000344 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ulster CountyAll 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.
  • 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.