Rockland Mill Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1921.

From the record

“Rockland Mill Complex is a national historic district located at Rockland in Sullivan County, New York. The district includes four contributing buildings and three contributing structures.”
Wikipedia article Rockland Mill Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 1984 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Palen Pl., Rockland, 12776
When was it listed? August 1984
Category. district
Town. Rockland town
National Register reference number. 84003062 - 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

34 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Rockland Mill Complex between 2004 and 2020, burning about 35 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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	15
Arson/incendiarism	5
Debris and open burning	5
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 August 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
18 July 2020	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
9 May 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 May 2005	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this property

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rockland, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 4 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
October 2010	Flash Flood	Rockland	1 killed, $10,000	Heavy rain caused flooding of numerous roads throughout the county, including Rockland. A vehicle fatality occurred at about 5:00 AM on the morning of October 1st in the Town of Neversink. The driver was traveling to work and was swept by floodwaters into Willowemoc Creek. The body of the 55 year old woman was found the next morning along the shore of the Neversink Reservoir.
July 2008	Flash Flood	Rockland	$15,000,000	Heavy rain from thunderstorms caused significant flash flooding. All roads in the towns of Colchester were closed, and a State of Emergency was declared. 15-20 residents were evacuated near County Highway 7. Serious damage occurred to a bridge on the highway. Portions of the road on Holiday and Berry Brook were completely washed out, and one rescue took place from a car. Flooding also occurred along Route 206 from Rockland to Route 30. Highway 17 west of Roscoe, Old Route 17 near Roscoe and Route 17 eastbound east of Roscoe were all closed due to washouts of portions of the highway. Water surrounded a home in Jeffersonville.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Rockland	$300,000	Beaver Kill Road was washed out just across the border of Delaware County in the town of Rockland by flash flooding. 300,000 dollars worth of damage was done to this road.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Rockland	$27,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down power poles.
July 2010	Flash Flood	Rockland	$15,000	Radar indicated a basin average rainfall of almost 4 inches within 2 hours over the Spring Brook watershed. The heaviest rainfall was confined to the middle portion of the basin with locally heavier rainfall of 6 to 8 inches. One rain gauge had 5 inches of rain in this portion of the Spring Brook watershed. Evacuations took place along Spring Brook and were precautionary in nature. Water over-topped a minimum of three bridges along State Route 206 in the Spring Brook watershed and one along the Little Spring Brook tributary.

Every storm recorded in Sullivan County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1921 USGS Livingston Manor quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1923 USGS Livingston Manor quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Livingston Manor quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Roscoe quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

4 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
Roscoe Presbyterian Church and Westfield Flats Cemetery	1.2 miles	2001
Dundas Castle	2.9 miles	2001
Beaverkill Covered Bridge	4.6 miles	2007
Aqudas Achim Synagogue	5.7 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84003062 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sullivan County	All 79 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.
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.