Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.
From the record
“The Johannes Miller House is a Registered Historic Place in the Orange County, New York, Town of Montgomery. It is located on NY 211 just opposite its junction with NY 416 and another Registered Historic Place, the Harrison Meeting House Site and Cemetery.”
Wikipedia article Johannes Miller House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.80002737- 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
250 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 250 fires within 5 miles of Johannes Miller House
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 186 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 31 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
144
Arson/incendiarism
31
Debris and open burning
25
Smoking
17
Natural
14
Equipment and vehicle use
8
Misuse of fire by a minor
4
Fireworks
3
Recreation and ceremony
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Other causes
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
5 workings within 5 miles of Johannes Miller House: 3 producers, 2 past producers.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Montgomery, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 13 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 3 lightning, 2 flash flood.
The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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.
Lightning struck 2 women that were playing golf near the Osiris Country Club in Montgomery, resulting in 1 death and 1 injury. The women were struck inside a shelter after running for cover.
An isolated severe thunderstorm developed just ahead of an advancing cold front. Numerous reports of between 1/4 and 1/2 inch hail were received as this storm passed across southeastern New York. The dime-size hail in Montgomery was reported by a National Weather Service technician working outside at the time.
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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