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Alton B. Parker Estate

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 2016 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Listed as. Parker, Alton B., Estate - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 14 Lamont Landing Rd., Esopus, 12429
  • When was it listed? August 2016
  • Category. building
  • Town. Esopus town
  • National Register reference number. 16000558 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1898 to 1993

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Alton B. Parker Estate, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet covering Alton B. Parker Estate, surveyed 1898

Fires near this property

258 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 258 fires within 5 miles of Alton B. Parker Estate between 1997 and 2020, burning about 206 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 51 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/undetermined151
Arson/incendiarism51
Smoking16
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning9
Natural9
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Recreation and ceremony3
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
9 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot 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 Alton B. Parker Estate: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hyde Park PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Morris BankSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this property

20 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Esopus, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 17 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2000Tornado (F2)Esopus$50,000no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindEsopus$10,000no account filed
December 2023FloodEsopus$3,000Numerous town and county roads were closed in the Town of Esopus.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindEsopus$1,000no account filed
April 1995Thunderstorm WindEsopus$500no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindEsopus-Trees were downed on Route 9W in the town of Esopus.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindEsopus-Multiple trees were downed near Route 9W and Black Creek Road in the Town of Esopus.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindEsopus-A tree and wires were downed near Old Post Road and Swartekill Road in the Town of Esopus.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindEsopus-A tree was downed near Esopus.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindEsopus-A tree was downed at Soper Road and Old Post Road in Rifton resulting in a road closure.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindEsopus-Trees were downed at Old Post Road and Swartekill Road.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindEsopus-Powerlines were downed.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindEsopus-Large tree limbs were downed.
February 2017Thunderstorm WindEsopus-A tree was reported down on Old Post Road at Swarterkill Road.
February 2017Thunderstorm WindEsopus-One lane of the southern portion of River Road was closed due to a downed tree.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindEsopus-Trees were reported down due to thunderstorm winds in Esopus.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindEsopus-Trees and wires were reported down in Esopus due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2008HailEsopus-Golf ball size hail was reported in Esopus during a thunderstorm.||The large hail led to the destruction of tree fruits, berries, and vegetables near Esopus, and across several other locations across Ulster County. Preliminary total damage estimates due to hail in Ulster County was near 16.6 million.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindEsopus-Trees down
July 2005Thunderstorm WindEsopus-Trees down

Every storm recorded in Ulster County

Maps showing this location

13 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
Cumming-Parker House0.3 miles2010
Poppletown Farmhouse1.0 miles1991
Col. Oliver Hazard Payne Estate1.4 miles2002
Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Klyne Esopus1.8 miles2002
Holy Cross Monastery1.9 miles1995
John Burroughs Riverby Study2.0 miles1968

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 16000558 in Record Group 79.
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.