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Silas Gardner House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“The Silas Gardner House is a colonial stone house at the junction of routes 52 and 300 in the Gardnertown section of the Town of Newburgh in Orange County, New York. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1980.”

Wikipedia article Silas Gardner House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1980 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Gardner, Silas, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 1141 Union Ave., Gardnertown, 12550
  • When was it listed? March 1980
  • Category. building
  • Town. Newburgh town
  • National Register reference number. 80002734 - 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

654 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 654 fires within 5 miles of Silas Gardner House between 1995 and 2020, burning about 464 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 55 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/undetermined417
Arson/incendiarism55
Smoking41
Equipment and vehicle use33
Natural32
Recreation and ceremony29
Debris and open burning29
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Other causes3
Fireworks3

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
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2004Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
5 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Silas Gardner House: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Limestone Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Limestone Rock Quarry No. Hj-021StonePast Producer
Clay Pit No. Hj-023ClayProducerClay
Clay Pit No. Hj-023ClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this property

14 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gardnertown, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 2 flash flood, 2 lightning. 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 2023LightningGardnertown$10,000House fire caused by lightning strike on Chestnut Lane.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindGardnertown$10,000Multiple calls to FD for trees and wires down in and around Gardnertown NY.
July 2020LightningGardnertown$6,000House struck by lightning at 6 Shady Lane.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindGardnertown$5,000Multiple trees were reported down throughout Gardnertown.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindGardnertown$2,000Wires down at Route 300 and Holts Corners Road.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindGardnertown$2,000Large tree branches were reported downed around the town of Gardnertown.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindGardnertown$1,500Numerous large tree limbs were reported down on Gardnertown Road near Route 52.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindGardnertown$1,000Downed tree closed I-87 southbound about 2 miles before the Newburgh exit.
August 2013Flash FloodGardnertown-Eight inches of water was flowing down Union Ave. in Gardnertown.
August 2013Flash FloodGardnertown-The southbound lanes of Rt. 300, Union Ave., in Newburgh were closed near I-84 due to flooding.
August 2011FloodGardnertown-The New York State Thruway (I-87) was closed from the Rockland/Orange County line to exit 17 in Newburgh due to flooding.
August 2011FloodGardnertown-I-84 near exit 7 in Newburgh was closed due to flooding.
August 2009Funnel CloudGardnertown-A funnel cloud was reported on North Plank Road near Cronomer Hill Park.
April 2007FloodGardnertown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orange County

Maps showing this location

11 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
Orange Mill Historic District0.6 miles1997
Belknap Stone House1.6 miles2001
Walden United Methodist Church2.5 miles2008
Powelton Club2.7 miles1999
Patton, James "Squire," House2.7 miles2008
Bloomer-Dailey House and Balmville Tree3.0 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80002734 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orange CountyAll 187 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.