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Photograph of Snyder Estate Natural Cement Historic District
Photograph by Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Snyder Estate Natural Cement Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“The Snyder Estate Natural Cement Historic District is located in the Town of Rosendale, New York, United States. It is a 275-acre (111 ha) tract roughly bounded by Rondout Creek, Binnewater and Cottekill roads and Sawdust Avenue.”

Wikipedia article Snyder Estate Natural Cement Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 1992 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. NY 213, 1/2 mi. W of Rosendale, Rosendale, 12401
  • When was it listed? June 1992
  • Category. district
  • Town. Rosendale town
  • National Register reference number. 92000695 - 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

147 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Snyder Estate Natural Cement Historic District between 1993 and 2020, burning about 168 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined70
Smoking21
Debris and open burning20
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural8
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
15 September 2001Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.4 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
3 August 2002Natural2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 August 2020Natural5.0 acresNew York Forest RangersCRAGSWOOD FIRE
22 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
11 August 2020Recreation and ceremony1.6 acresFire Department of New YorkNA

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Snyder Estate Natural Cement Historic District: 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Abrasive, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bloating Material, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Diamond Productions/ Clifton, N.J.AbrasiveUnknown
EddyvilleBloating MaterialProducerSedimentary
Eddyville Clay PitClayPast Producer
H. Franco and Son Sand and Stone CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this property

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rosendale, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1993 and 2019: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2004Thunderstorm WindRosendale$10,000Winds in excess of 60 mph caused numerous trees to fall onto roadways. One car parked on Route 213 in Rosendale was completely destroyed when a tree fell on it. Additional damage was found in Tillson and High Falls.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindRosendale$10,000no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindRosendale$8,000no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindRosendale$5,000Severe thunderstorm winds downed power lines across parts of Ulster County leaving 250 customers without power on the evening of August 14th.
August 1994Thunderstorm WindRosendale$5,000no account filed
May 1993Thunderstorm WindRosendale$5,000no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindRosendale-Wires were downed onto a house on Wallkill Avenue.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindRosendale-Trees were reported down due to thunderstorm winds in Rosendale.
June 2011HailRosendale-Quarter size hail (measured) was reported during a thunderstorm in Rosendale.
October 2010FloodRosendale-Route 32 was reported closed in both directions due to flooding just north of Creek Locks Road in Rosendale.
October 2006FloodRosendale-On October 28, minor flooding occurred on Rondout Creek at Rosendale. A flood crest of 18.56 feet occurred at 4:15 PM EST. Flood stage is 18.0 feet.|
May 2005Thunderstorm WindRosendale-Trees and power lines down at route 32 and route 213
August 2001HailRosendale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ulster 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Binnewater Historic District0.9 miles1982
All Saints' Chapel0.9 miles1986
High Falls Historic District2.2 miles1998
Lock Tender's House and Canal Store Ruin2.5 miles1998
Cornelius Wynkoop Stone House2.5 miles1996
Main Street Historic District2.6 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 92000695 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ulster CountyAll 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.