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Photograph of Sloat House
Photograph by Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Sloat House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

“The Sloat House is located at the corner of NY 17 and Sterling Avenue in Sloatsburg, New York, United States. It is a stone house, dating to the mid-18th century, with a frame front addition built in the 1810s.”

Wikipedia article Sloat House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Rockland County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 19 Orange Tpke., Sloatsburg, 10974
  • When was it listed? November 1974
  • Category. building
  • Town. Ramapo town
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 74001301 - 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

622 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 622 fires within 5 miles of Sloat House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,134 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 71 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/undetermined321
Smoking95
Arson/incendiarism71
Recreation and ceremony57
Equipment and vehicle use21
Natural20
Debris and open burning13
Other causes9
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 September 2001Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2010Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNew Jersey Forest Fire Servicenot named
7 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew Jersey Forest Fire Servicenot named
6 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Rockland County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 47 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 47 workings within 5 miles of Sloat House: 40 past producers, 5 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Graphite. 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
Suffern DepositGraphiteProspect
Suffern QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Crystal Run PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
McKee Bros Sand and Gravel IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Mount Ivy Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Mount Ivy Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Alice MineIronPast Producer
Augusta MineIronPast Producer
Bering MineIronPast Producer
Bering/Morehead MinesIronPast ProducerMagnetite

Every working recorded in Rockland County

Storms near this property

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sloatsburg, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2000: 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2000Heavy RainSloatsburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rockland County

Maps showing this location

13 surveys

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.

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
Old Sloatsburg Cemetery0.2 miles1999
Jacob Sloat House0.3 miles2006
Sloat's Dam and Mill Pond0.5 miles2000
Robert W. and Mary F. McCready House0.9 miles2011
Torne Brook Farm1.7 miles1988
Brook Chapel2.0 miles2010

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 74001301 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rockland CountyAll 93 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.