Poppletown Farmhouse

Built in 1800. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

“Poppletown Farmhouse is a historic home located at Esopus in Ulster County, New York. It is a compact, two story rectangular stone house with a side facing gable roof built about 1800.”
Wikipedia article Poppletown Farmhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 1991 · category: Building · built in 1800.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of Old Post Rd. and Swarte Kill Rd., Esopus, 12561
When was it listed? November 1991
Category. building
Town. Esopus town
When was it built? 1800
National Register reference number. 91001656 - 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

1898 to 1993

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Poppletown Farmhouse, surveyed 1993

Topographic sheet covering Poppletown Farmhouse, surveyed 1898

Fires near this property

246 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 246 fires within 5 miles of Poppletown Farmhouse between 1997 and 2020, burning about 196 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 45 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	140
Arson/incendiarism	45
Smoking	16
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Debris and open burning	12
Natural	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Recreation and ceremony	2

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 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
28 September 2020	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
28 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Poppletown Farmhouse: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Hyde Park Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Morris Bank	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this property

20 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Esopus, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 17 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
May 2000	Tornado (F2)	Esopus	$50,000	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	$10,000	no account filed
December 2023	Flood	Esopus	$3,000	Numerous town and county roads were closed in the Town of Esopus.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	$1,000	no account filed
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	$500	no account filed
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	-	Trees were downed on Route 9W in the town of Esopus.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	-	Multiple trees were downed near Route 9W and Black Creek Road in the Town of Esopus.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	-	A tree and wires were downed near Old Post Road and Swartekill Road in the Town of Esopus.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	-	A tree was downed near Esopus.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	-	A tree was downed at Soper Road and Old Post Road in Rifton resulting in a road closure.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	-	Trees were downed at Old Post Road and Swartekill Road.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	-	Powerlines were downed.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	-	Large tree limbs were downed.
February 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	-	A tree was reported down on Old Post Road at Swarterkill Road.
February 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	-	One lane of the southern portion of River Road was closed due to a downed tree.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	-	Trees were reported down due to thunderstorm winds in Esopus.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	-	Trees and wires were reported down in Esopus due to strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2008	Hail	Esopus	-	Golf ball size hail was reported in Esopus during a thunderstorm.\|\|The large hail led to the destruction of tree fruits, berries, and vegetables near Esopus, and across several other locations across Ulster County. Preliminary total damage estimates due to hail in Ulster County was near 16.6 million.
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	-	Trees down
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Esopus	-	Trees down

Every storm recorded in Ulster County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

1898 USGS Rhinebeck quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
1934 USGS Rhinebeck quadrangle1:62500
1934 USGS Rhinebeck quadrangle1:48000
1939 USGS Rhinebeck quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1963 USGS Hyde Park quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1980 USGS Hyde Park quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Waterbury quadrangle1:100000

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
Alton B. Parker Estate	1.0 miles	2016
Col. Oliver Hazard Payne Estate	1.2 miles	2002
Cumming-Parker House	1.2 miles	2010
Holy Cross Monastery	1.6 miles	1995
Slabsides (John Burroughs Cabin)	1.6 miles	1968
John Burroughs Riverby Study	1.7 miles	1968

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001656 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.
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.