Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.
From the record
“The Southfield Furnace Ruin in Southfields, New York, was a longtime smelting site for iron ore mined from nearby veins in what is now Sterling Forest State Park. It is located on the north side of Orange County Route 19, 0.7 miles northwest of the junction with New York State Route 17.”
Wikipedia article Southfield Furnace Ruin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1973 · category: Site.
National Register reference number.73001243- 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.
Fires near this property
358 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 358 fires within 5 miles of Southfield Furnace Ruin
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,515 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 47 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
174
Debris and open burning
50
Arson/incendiarism
47
Misuse of fire by a minor
21
Equipment and vehicle use
20
Recreation and ceremony
18
Natural
12
Smoking
12
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Railroad operations and maintenance
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
16 workings within 5 miles of Southfield Furnace Ruin: 13 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Mica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Peat. 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
Monroe, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 3 hail, 2 flood.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
Route 208 near Monroe was closed due to flooding.||One 52 year old man drove through flood waters around 3 barricades and drowned in the Town of Tuxedo.
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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