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Photograph of Salisbury Manor
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Salisbury Manor

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

One of 101 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Address. NW of Leeds on NY 145, Leeds, 12451
  • When was it listed? June 1979
  • Category. building
  • Town. Catskill town
  • National Register reference number. 79001585 - 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

263 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 263 fires within 5 miles of Salisbury Manor between 1992 and 2020, burning about 337 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 26 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/undetermined115
Debris and open burning76
Arson/incendiarism26
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use13
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2020Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
26 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
20 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Salisbury Manor: 8 producers, 7 past producers, 2 occurrences. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Flagstone, Clay. 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
Austin's Glen DepositQuartzOccurrence
Cairo Blue Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Catskill Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Catskill QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Diamond Hill DepositQuartzOccurrence
North Catskill Clay PitClayProducer
North Catskill Clay PitClayPast Producer
South Potic Mountain Blue Ss QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Cairo Blue Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary
Catskill Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this property

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leeds, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 4 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2023FloodLeeds1 killed, $30,000Rising waters on the Catskill Creek flooded portions of Route 23B and Cauterskill Road near Leeds. A 76-year-old woman died after their vehicle was swept off Cauterskill Road due to flood waters after driving around a traffic barrier blocking the road.
December 2010Flash FloodLeeds$180,000A home was severely damaged by water due to flash flooding on County Route 23B in Leeds/Catskill.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindLeeds$2,000no account filed
December 2020FloodLeeds-Cauterskill Road and County Route 23B in Leeds were closed due to water over the road.
July 2013Flash FloodLeeds-The New York State Thruway southbound lanes at mile marker 111 were flooded due to heavy rainfall from thunderstorms.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLeeds-Trees were reported down at the Rip Van Winkle Motor Lodge in Leeds, due to strong thunderstorm winds. The winds were believed to occur from a microburst associated with the thunderstorm, with estimated peak winds of 85 mph.
September 2004Flash FloodLeeds-Officials closed a section of County Route 23B in Leeds, and many other creekside roads were closed as well. In addition, scattered power outages were reported due to the flooding.
August 2003Flash FloodLeeds-no account filed
August 1997HailLeeds-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greene County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

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
Newkirk Homestead0.6 miles1979
John Van Vechten House0.9 miles1995
Leeds Dutch Reformed Church1.1 miles1996
Captain Joseph Allen House2.8 miles2022
District School No. 113.0 miles1995
Rushmore Farm3.2 miles2010

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79001585 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greene CountyAll 101 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.