Built in 1881. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.
From the record
“The Amelia Barr House, also known as Cherry Croft, is located on Mountain Road in Cornwall on Hudson, a village in Orange County, New York, United States. It is on the slopes of Storm King Mountain, near Storm King School.”
Wikipedia article Amelia Barr House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1881.
National Register reference number.82001211- 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.
Then and now
1902 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19021994
Fires near this property
403 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 403 fires within 5 miles of Amelia Barr House
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,234 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 42 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
252
Arson/incendiarism
42
Recreation and ceremony
30
Natural
28
Smoking
17
Debris and open burning
13
Equipment and vehicle use
8
Misuse of fire by a minor
4
Fireworks
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Other causes
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
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
17 workings within 5 miles of Amelia Barr House: 10 past producers, 4 occurrences, 3 producers.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Stone, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
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