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Arden
A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. 14 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.
From the record
“Arden is a historic estate outside Harriman, New York, the 450-acre remains of a much larger property originally assembled by railroad magnate Edward Henry Harriman. By the early 1900s, Harriman owned 40,000 acres in the area, half of it comprising the Arden Estate.”
Wikipedia article Arden (estate), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1966 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number.66000561- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Then and now
1902 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19021994
Fires near this property
1,110 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1,110 fires within 5 miles of Arden
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,620 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 107 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
442
Debris and open burning
374
Arson/incendiarism
107
Misuse of fire by a minor
72
Equipment and vehicle use
43
Natural
28
Smoking
19
Recreation and ceremony
16
Other causes
4
Fireworks
3
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
11 workings within 5 miles of Arden: 7 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mica, Gemstone. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Harriman, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud.
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.
As a severe thunderstorm moved east, it produced high winds that damaged an inn's roof, downed power lines, and trees. Based on the Times-Herald Record serving Orange County, "The most significant damage was reported at the American Budget Inn off Route 17. About 70 percent of the inn's roof was dragged off by the violent winds and then tossed across the eastbound lanes of Route 17." Trees were downed along several streets in the Village of Harriman including River Road, Brookside Drive, and Melody Lane.
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.
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.
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.
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