Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.
From the record
“Post Office in Port Jervis, New York, serves the 12771 ZIP Code. This covers all of the city of Port Jervis and adjoining portions of the Town of Deer Park.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Port Jervis, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.88002408- 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
1906 to 1997
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19061997
Fires near this property
270 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 270 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Port Jervis
between 1994 and 2020, burning about 257 acres in total. 15 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
115
Arson/incendiarism
31
Debris and open burning
27
Equipment and vehicle use
24
Misuse of fire by a minor
20
Smoking
17
Natural
15
Recreation and ceremony
9
Power generation/transmission/distribution
7
Other causes
5
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
4 workings within 5 miles of US Post Office-Port Jervis: 3 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Port Jervis, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 3 hail, 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.
Heavy rain resulted in ponding of water 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 ft. high in the streets of the 4th ward of Port Jervis, which caused basement flooding in several homes. The department of public works reported 3.25 inches of rainfall in an hour.
A line of thunderstorms entered Orange county around 3:11 pm local time around the town of Port Jervis, downing trees and power lines. The line proceeded to the east, knocking down trees and power lines countywide through about 3:45 pm local time.
A trained spotter reported trees down due to high winds in Port Jervis. Law enforcement officials reported downed trees and power lines in Walden at 16:15 EST.
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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