A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1968. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.
From the record
“The Delaware and Hudson Canal was the first venture of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, which would later build the Delaware and Hudson Railway. Between 1828 and 1899, the canal's barges carried anthracite coal from the mines of northeastern Pennsylvania to the Hudson River and then to market in New York City.”
Wikipedia article Delaware and Hudson Canal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1968 · category: Structure · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number. 68000051 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
124 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Delaware and Hudson Canal
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 527 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 17 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
52
Debris and open burning
21
Arson/incendiarism
17
Equipment and vehicle use
15
Smoking
10
Recreation and ceremony
3
Natural
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
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
6 workings within 5 miles of Delaware and Hudson Canal: 4 past producers, 2 prospects.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Lead, Zinc, Zinc, Lead. 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
Cuddebackville, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2013: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning.
The reports record 4 injuries. 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.
Torrential rains caused flash flooding in areas of Cuddebackville including Deerpark manor. Firefighters and other volunteers spent hours laying sandbags to prevent homes from the floodwaters.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, 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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