Joachim Schoonmaker Farm

Built in 1787. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“Joachim Schoonmaker Farm, also known as Saunderskill Farm, is a historic home and farm and national historic district located at Accord, Ulster County, New York. The farmstead was established about 300 years ago and has been owned by the same family since then.”
Wikipedia article Joachim Schoonmaker Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 2013 · category: District · built in 1787.

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

The listing

Listed as. Schoonmaker, Joachim, Farm - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 41 Garden Ln., Accord, 12404
When was it listed? May 2013
Category. district
Also known as. Rochester MPS
Town. Rochester town
When was it built? 1787
National Register reference number. 13000244 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

193 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 193 fires within 5 miles of Joachim Schoonmaker Farm between 1993 and 2020, burning about 5,296 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 31 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	117
Arson/incendiarism	31
Natural	15
Debris and open burning	9
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3

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
6 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
5 September 2005	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
4 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
3 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
29 September 2005	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

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 Joachim Schoonmaker 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Accord Stone and Lime Company	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Krom Road Gravel Bank	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Accord	$20,000	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Accord	$12,000	no account filed
September 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Accord	$5,000	A 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 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Accord	$5,000	no account filed
April 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Accord	$5,000	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Accord	$4,000	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Accord	$2,000	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Accord	$2,000	no account filed
September 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Accord	-	Trees and wires were reported down in Accord due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Accord	-	Trees were blown down.
May 2004	Hail	Accord	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Accord	-	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.

1901 USGS Rosendale quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Rosendale quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1942 USGS Mohonk Lake quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Mohonk Lake quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Mohonk Lake quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Monticello 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
Accord Historic District	1.1 miles	2020
Appeldoorn Farm	1.4 miles	2013
Dirck Westbrook Stone House	1.7 miles	1995
Alligerville Historic District	1.7 miles	2015
Stilwill-Westbrook Stone House	1.8 miles	1999
Van Wagenen Stone House and Farm Complex	2.1 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000244 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ulster County	All 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.