BlockFrom the record
One of 79 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 2016 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Callicoon Downtown Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1920.
The listing
- Address. Main Sts, Highview & Mitchell Aves., River & Hospital Rds., Bridge St., and NY 97, Callicoon, 12723
- When was it listed? June 2016
- Category. district
- Town. Delaware town
- National Register reference number. 16000390 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1920 to 1992The ground this property stands on, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
91 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Callicoon Downtown Historic District between 1999 and 2020, burning about 85 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 3 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 | 62 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
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 | N/A |
| 26 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 2 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 2 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 11 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 1 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 22 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 22 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Callicoon Downtown Historic District: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Town of Delaware Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
14 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Callicoon, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 3 hail, 2 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2011 | Flood | Callicoon | $300,000 | Moderate flooding occurred along the Delaware River near Callicoon, NY. The river gauge located near Callicoon crested at 14.34 feet at 5:15 PM on September 8, 2011. |
| September 2012 | Flash Flood | Callicoon | $50,000 | Widespread flash flooding was occurring. Callicoon Creek was reported out of its banks in Jeffersonville with 1 to 2 feet of water covering several roads. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Callicoon | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused widespread damage to tree and power lines in Callicoon and Jeffersonville, both in the town of Callicoon. |
| October 2021 | Flash Flood | Callicoon | $5,000 | Numerous roads were flooded. Water rescues in progress. |
| February 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Callicoon | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Callicoon | $2,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree and wires. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Callicoon | $1,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked a tree down across the roadway at Route 97 and Viaduct Road. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Callicoon | $1,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree onto the road. |
| October 2021 | Flood | Callicoon | $1,000 | Moderate flooding occurred on the Delaware River at Callicoon. The river crested at 13.68 feet at midnight on October 27th. Flood stage is 12 feet at this location. At 13 feet, flooding reaches the parking lot of the bank and the lower part of the gas station parking lot near the bridge in Callicoon. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Callicoon | - | Trees and wires down from thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Callicoon | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Callicoon | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Callicoon | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Flood | Callicoon | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
13 surveysUnited 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.
- 1920 USGS Long Eddy quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1921 USGS Long Eddy quadrangle1:48000
- 1923 USGS Long Eddy quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1943 USGS Honesdale quadrangle1:125000
- 1944 USGS Long Eddy quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Callicoon quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Honesdale quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Callicoon quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Callicoon National Bank | under 500 feet | 1994 |
 | Callicoon Methodist Church and Parsonage | 0.1 miles | 1993 |
 | St. Joseph's Seminary | 0.2 miles | 1993 |
 | St. James Church and Rectory | 0.3 miles | 1993 |
 | German Presbyterian Church and Hortonville Cemetery | 1.5 miles | 2003 |
| German Presbyterian Church and Hortonville Cemetery | 1.6 miles | 2003 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 16000390 in Record Group 79. |
| Sullivan County | All 79 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.