Perrine's Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“Perrine's Bridge is the second-oldest covered bridge in the State of New York, after the Hyde Hall Bridge in East Springfield. Once located in the hamlet called Perrines Bridge between 1850 and 1861.”
Wikipedia article Perrine's Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 1973 · category: Structure.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Off U.S. 87 over Wallkill River, Rosendale, 12561
When was it listed? April 1973
Category. structure
Town. Esopus town
National Register reference number. 73001281 - 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

233 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 233 fires within 5 miles of Perrine's Bridge between 1997 and 2020, burning about 235 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 28 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	108
Smoking	32
Debris and open burning	31
Arson/incendiarism	28
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Natural	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Other causes	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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
29 September 2005	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
28 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
25 September 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
17 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Perrine's Bridge: 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
	H. Franco and Son Sand and Stone Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this property

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rosendale, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1993 and 2019: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 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
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Rosendale	$10,000	Winds in excess of 60 mph caused numerous trees to fall onto roadways. One car parked on Route 213 in Rosendale was completely destroyed when a tree fell on it. Additional damage was found in Tillson and High Falls.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Rosendale	$10,000	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Rosendale	$8,000	no account filed
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Rosendale	$5,000	Severe thunderstorm winds downed power lines across parts of Ulster County leaving 250 customers without power on the evening of August 14th.
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Rosendale	$5,000	no account filed
May 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Rosendale	$5,000	no account filed
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Rosendale	-	Wires were downed onto a house on Wallkill Avenue.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Rosendale	-	Trees were reported down due to thunderstorm winds in Rosendale.
June 2011	Hail	Rosendale	-	Quarter size hail (measured) was reported during a thunderstorm in Rosendale.
October 2010	Flood	Rosendale	-	Route 32 was reported closed in both directions due to flooding just north of Creek Locks Road in Rosendale.
October 2006	Flood	Rosendale	-	On October 28, minor flooding occurred on Rondout Creek at Rosendale. A flood crest of 18.56 feet occurred at 4:15 PM EST. Flood stage is 18.0 feet.\|
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Rosendale	-	Trees and power lines down at route 32 and route 213
August 2001	Hail	Rosendale	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ulster County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1901 USGS Rosendale quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Rosendale quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1942 USGS Rosendale quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Rosendale quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Rosendale quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
DuBois-Deyo House	1.8 miles	1994
All Saints' Chapel	2.4 miles	1986
Snyder Estate Natural Cement Historic District	3.0 miles	1992
Binnewater Historic District	3.4 miles	1982
High Falls Historic District	3.9 miles	1998
Lock Tender's House and Canal Store Ruin	4.0 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73001281 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ulster County	All 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.