Rockland County Courthouse and Dutch Gardens

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.

From the record

“Rockland County Courthouse and Dutch Gardens is a historic county courthouse, public garden, and national historic district located at New City in Rockland County, New York. The district has two contributing buildings, one contributing site, five contributing structures, and two contributing objects.”
Wikipedia article Rockland County Courthouse and Dutch Gardens, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Rockland County · listed in 1991 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Jct. of S. Main St. and New Hempstead Rd., New City, 10956
When was it listed? January 1991
Category. district
Town. Clarkstown town
National Register reference number. 90002104 - 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

2,420 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,420 fires within 5 miles of Rockland County Courthouse and Dutch Gardens between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,809 acres in total. 121 started naturally. 196 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	1438
Smoking	373
Arson/incendiarism	196
Natural	121
Recreation and ceremony	95
Equipment and vehicle use	93
Debris and open burning	47
Misuse of fire by a minor	39
Power generation/transmission/distribution	18

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	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
9 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 September 2009	Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	6.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Rockland County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Rockland County Courthouse and Dutch Gardens: 6 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Copper, Zirconium. 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
Ladentown Copper Deposit	Copper, Zirconium	Occurrence
Clay Pit No. Hl-009	Clay	Past Producer
Clay Pit No. Hl-009	Clay	Past Producer
Clay Pit No. Hl-010	Clay	Past Producer
Clay Pit No. Hl-010	Clay	Past Producer
Haverstraw Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Haverstraw Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
West Nyack Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
West Nyack Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Rockland County

Storms near this property

22 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New City, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 18 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 2 hail. 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
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	New City	1 hurt, $5,000	A tree down on an occupied car on Laurel Road between Wayne Avenue and Capitol Court. Driver sustained a minor hand injury.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	New City	$10,000	A large tree fell onto a house along Mill Creek Road in New City.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	New City	$5,000	A tree was reported down on a house in New City.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	New City	$5,000	Around a dozen trees and several power lines were reported down in New City, including across Route 304 and near Goebel Road.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	New City	$3,000	Numerous trees, wires and poles were reported down around town.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	New City	$2,000	A few trees and power lines were reported down in New City.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	New City	$1,000	Numerous trees were downed on wires around New City.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	New City	$1,000	A maple tree was reported snapped in half at 2 Ember Drive in New City.
April 2024	Hail	New City	-	Video showing hail with a few up to the size of quarters.
August 2011	Flood	New City	-	Basement flooding occurred on Fernwood Dr. in New City.
October 2010	Flood	New City	-	Congers Rd. at Main St. was closed due to flooding in New City. Rainfall totals ranged from 4.47 inches in West Nyack to 6.24 inches in Thiells.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	New City	-	Trees and power lines down in New City and Stony Point.
October 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	New City	-	As a thunderstorm moved across Rockland County, it developed into a severe thunderstorm. This storm produced damaging winds that knocked several trees down in New City. This was reported by local police.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	New City	-	Police reported that strong winds knocked down several trees and power lines.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	New City	-	Local police reported several trees knocked over by this storm.
July 2011	Hail	New City	-	no account filed
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	New City	-	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	New City	-	no account filed
September 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	New City	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	New City	-	no account filed
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	New City	-	no account filed
October 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	New City	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rockland County

Maps showing this location

15 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.

1892 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1902 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1937 USGS Tarrytown quadrangle1:62500
1938 USGS Haverstraw quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Haverstraw quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Haverstraw quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1967 USGS Haverstraw quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Haverstraw quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:100000 - 3 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
H.R. Stevens House	1.0 miles	2005
Blauvelt-Cropsey Farm	1.1 miles	2017
Blauvelt House	1.7 miles	1985
Peter DePew House	2.0 miles	2008
Tallman-Budke and Vanderbilt-Budke-Traphagen Houses	2.1 miles	2017
English Church and Schoolhouse	2.2 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90002104 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.