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Appeldoorn Farm

Built in 1758. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“Appeldoorn Farm is a historic home and farm and national historic district located at Accord, Ulster County, New York. The farmstead was established in 1722, and restored and redeveloped as a Colonial Revival country retreat in 1930-1937.”

Wikipedia article Appeldoorn Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 2013 · category: District · built in 1758.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. 4938 US 209, Accord, 12404
  • When was it listed? March 2013
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Rochester MPS
  • Town. Rochester town
  • When was it built? 1758
  • National Register reference number. 13000099 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

204 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 204 fires within 5 miles of Appeldoorn Farm between 1993 and 2020, burning about 5,311 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 34 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/undetermined122
Arson/incendiarism34
Natural15
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Debris and open burning8
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
5 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
3 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
29 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Appeldoorn Farm: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Accord Stone and Lime CompanyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Krom Road Gravel BankSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this property

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Accord, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1993 and 2010: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1996Thunderstorm WindAccord$20,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindAccord$12,000no account filed
September 1993Thunderstorm WindAccord$5,000A strong cold front moved across Eastern New York during the late afternoon and evening hours of September 3rd. A tornado touched down in the Hamilton County Town of Long Lake. The tornado had a continuous path of about three miles from halfway between Deer Pond and North Pond to 1.5 miles southwest of Hardigan Pond. It then skipped along another 3-mile- path with the last touch down occurring halfway between Salmon Lake and Rock Pond. The tornado downed large swaths of forest timber as it left a damage path up to 0.25 mile wide. In Oneida, Sullivan and Ulster Counties thunderstorm winds downed tree limbs and power lines across parts of each county leaving over 7,000 customers without power in Oneida County and more than 5,000 customers without power in Ulster County. In Highmount in Delaware County lightning struck a house twice during the same storm. The lightning blew out windows in the house, dug up the yard and disabled two vehicles. In Broome County thunderstorm winds downed a tree and power lines off Rte. 26 near the North Endicott Substation.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindAccord$5,000no account filed
April 1993Thunderstorm WindAccord$5,000no account filed
May 1996HailAccord$4,000no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindAccord$2,000no account filed
July 1997HailAccord$2,000no account filed
September 2010Thunderstorm WindAccord-Trees and wires were reported down in Accord due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindAccord-Trees were blown down.
May 2004HailAccord-no account filed
May 2000HailAccord-no account filed

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Dirck Westbrook Stone House0.4 miles1995
Hornbeck Stone House1.1 miles1995
Stilwill-Westbrook Stone House1.1 miles1999
Krom Stone House and Dutch Barn1.1 miles1995
Ephriam DuPuy Stone House1.2 miles1995
Accord Historic District1.3 miles2020

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 13000099 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.