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Photograph of Upper Nyack Firehouse
Photograph by David Rivera, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Upper Nyack Firehouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Upper Nyack Firehouse, built for the Empire Hook & Ladder Company, No. 1, is a historic fire station located at Upper Nyack in Rockland County, New York, United States. It was completed in July 1887 and is a two-story brick structure in the Queen Anne style.”

Wikipedia article Upper Nyack Firehouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Rockland County · listed in 1982 · 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.
  • Address. 330 N. Broadway, Upper Nyack, 10960
  • When was it listed? September 1982
  • Category. building
  • Town. Clarkstown town
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
  • National Register reference number. 82004781 - 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

1,316 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,316 fires within 5 miles of Upper Nyack Firehouse between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,330 acres in total. 99 started naturally. 78 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/undetermined794
Smoking188
Natural99
Arson/incendiarism78
Recreation and ceremony61
Equipment and vehicle use46
Debris and open burning38
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Other causes1
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 2015Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2003Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Rockland County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Upper Nyack Firehouse: 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Silver, Iron, Chromium, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Sing Sing Ag MineLead, Silver, Iron, CopperPast Producer
Sing Sing Silver MineLead, Copper, Silver, Iron, Chromium, Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast ProducerChalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Silver
Sparta Copper DepositCopper, LeadOccurrence
West Nyack QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
West Nyack Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rockland County

Storms near this property

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Upper Nyack, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2013LightningUpper Nyack1 hurtLightning struck a home in Airmont, causing a man to move across an interior room. He was not injured. Lightning also tore off shingles and bowed a wall of a neighboring house.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindUpper Nyack$10,000Multiple reports of downed trees (and branches) and power lines in the town of Valley Cottage. Some locations include Milburn Court and Flower Lane, Kings Highway between Maple and Old Mill, and Old Mill and Boxberger.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindUpper Nyack$5,000A line of substantial trees were damaged that runs several streets through a neighborhood near Radcliff Drive in Upper Nyack NY.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindUpper Nyack$3,000Large tree uprooted, pulling up the sidewalk with power lines down on North Broadway.
August 2024HailUpper Nyack-Public reports 1 inch hail near Radcliff Drive in Upper Nyack NY.
March 2009HailUpper Nyack-Quarter size hail was reported by a trained spotter.
August 2008Flash FloodUpper Nyack-Rockland Lake Rd. was impassable in Valley Cottage.

Every storm recorded in Rockland County

Maps showing this location

16 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
Van Houten's Landing Historic Districtunder 500 feet2004
First Methodist Episcopal Church of Nyack0.1 miles1998
Brookside0.4 miles2012
Edward Hopper Birthplace and Boyhood Home0.6 miles2000
Shadowcliff0.6 miles2014
John Green House0.8 miles2017

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82004781 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.