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US Post Office-Suffern

Built in 1936 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 18 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

“Post Office in Suffern, New York, is located on Chestnut Street between NY 59 and US 202, on the northern edge of the village's downtown business district. It serves the ZIP Code 10901, covering the village of Suffern.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Suffern, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Rockland County · listed in 1989 · category: Building · built in 1936, Colonial Revival architecture, by Louis A. Simon.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. US Post Office--Suffern - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 15 Chestnut St., Suffern, 10901
When was it listed? May 1989
Category. building
Also known as. US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
Town. Ramapo town
When was it built? 1936
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture, Streamline Moderne
Architect. Louis A. Simon
National Register reference number. 88002435 - 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

1891 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering US Post Office-Suffern, surveyed 1995

Topographic sheet covering US Post Office-Suffern, surveyed 1891

Fires near this property

897 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 897 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Suffern between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,001 acres in total. 36 started naturally. 109 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	458
Smoking	139
Arson/incendiarism	109
Recreation and ceremony	71
Natural	36
Equipment and vehicle use	25
Debris and open burning	24
Misuse of fire by a minor	21
Other causes	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Fireworks	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
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
9 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New Jersey Forest Fire Service	not named
6 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2020	Natural	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Rockland County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of US Post Office-Suffern: 5 past producers, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Graphite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Suffern Deposit	Graphite	Prospect
Suffern Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Bering Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Bering/Morehead Mines	Iron	Past Producer	Magnetite
Butler Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1868, 1880
McKee Bros Sand and Gravel Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Mount Ivy Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Mount Ivy Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Rockland County

Storms near this property

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Suffern, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 12 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2001	Flash Flood	Suffern	1 hurt	no account filed
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Suffern	$3,000	A large tree was reported down, blocking two lanes of US Route 202 at Lake Road in Ramapo.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Suffern	$1,000	Tree down on Route 202 near Mayer Drive. Right lane is closed.
July 2025	Flash Flood	Suffern	-	One to two feet of water on roadway under an overpass near the Suffern Train Station. Road closed.
April 2022	Flood	Suffern	-	Residence filling with water on Route 59.
July 2011	Flash Flood	Suffern	-	In Suffern, two cars became stuck in high water beneath the Chestnut St. overpass. The water level eventually reached the roofs of both vehicles, but the passengers were able to evacuate in time.
July 2010	Hail	Suffern	-	Penny size hail was reported at exit 15 on the New York State Thruway.
November 2006	Flood	Suffern	-	The Mahwah River at Suffern reached its' flood stage at 345 pm, crested at 5.58 feet at 745 pm, and fell below flood stage at 1045 am on the 9th. This caused the closing of multiple streets in Suffern.
September 2004	Flash Flood	Suffern	-	Flash flooding resulted in the closure of several lanes on I-87.
December 2003	Flash Flood	Suffern	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Suffern	-	no account filed
December 2000	Flash Flood	Suffern	-	no account filed
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Suffern	-	no account filed
May 1998	Flash Flood	Suffern	-	no account filed
June 1997	Lightning	Suffern	-	no account filed
June 1997	Flash Flood	Suffern	-	no account filed
December 1996	Flash Flood	Suffern	-	no account filed
July 1996	Flash Flood	Suffern	-	no account filed
October 1996	Flash Flood	Suffern	-	no account filed
July 1996	Flash Flood	Suffern	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rockland County

Maps showing this location

18 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.

1891 USGS Ramapo quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Ramapo quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1910 USGS Ramapo quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1931 USGS Ramapo quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1931 USGS Ramapo quadrangle1:48000
1936 USGS Ramsey quadrangle1:24000
1938 USGS Ramapo quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1940 USGS Ramsey quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Ramsey quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1945 USGS Ramsey quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Ramsey quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Middletown quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1995 USGS Ramsey quadrangle1:24000

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
Washington Avenue Soldier's Monument and Triangle	0.2 miles	2006
Main School	1.1 miles	2015
Brook Chapel	1.3 miles	2010
Torne Brook Farm	1.8 miles	1988
John A. DeBaun Mill	2.5 miles	1993
Sloat House	3.2 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88002435 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rockland County	All 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.