Photograph of Johannes Jansen House — Photograph by Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Johannes Jansen House and Dutch Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“The Johannes Jansen House, also known as Johannes Jansen House and Dutch Barn, is located along Decker Road at the foot of the Shawangunk Ridge in the western section of the Town of Shawangunk, in Ulster County, New York, United States. It was started by Jansen, who had settled the area along with his brother Thomas, whose own house is a mile (1.6 km) to the southeast, in 1750.”
Wikipedia article Johannes Jansen House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listed as. Jansen, Johannes, House and Dutch Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Decker Rd., Shawangunk, 12589
When was it listed? September 1983
Category. building
Also known as. Shawangunk Valley MRA
Town. Shawangunk town
National Register reference number. 83001818 - 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

69 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Johannes Jansen House and Dutch Barn between 1995 and 2019, burning about 2,116 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 10 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	37
Arson/incendiarism	10
Debris and open burning	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	3
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
26 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 July 2010	Natural	4.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 July 2012	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	UPPER MTN RD
7 June 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
26 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
20 June 2011	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Ulster 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.

1904 USGS Ellenville quadrangle1:62500
1906 USGS Ellenville quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1943 USGS Napanoch quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Napanoch quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Peter Aldrich Homestead	0.7 miles	1983
Pearl Street Schoolhouse	0.9 miles	1983
William Decker House	1.4 miles	1983
Thomas Jansen House	1.6 miles	1983
Dill Farm	1.7 miles	1983
Bruynswick School No. 8	2.3 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83001818 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ulster County	All 209 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.