Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.
From the record
“DeBaun Mill is a historic grist mill located at Tallman in Rockland County, New York. It was built about 1845 and is a two-story, four by two bay, heavy timber frame, clapboard sheathed main block on a rubble stone foundation.”
Wikipedia article John A. DeBaun Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 93 National Register listings published here for Rockland County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.93000852- 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.
18911995
Fires near this property
1,637 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1,637 fires within 5 miles of John A. DeBaun Mill
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,294 acres in total. 77 started naturally. 168 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
873
Smoking
299
Arson/incendiarism
168
Recreation and ceremony
82
Natural
77
Equipment and vehicle use
59
Debris and open burning
40
Misuse of fire by a minor
30
Power generation/transmission/distribution
7
Fireworks
1
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
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
5 workings within 5 miles of John A. DeBaun Mill: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 prospect.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Tallman, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 9 flood, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind.
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.
The Mahwah River near Suffern rose above its minor flood stage of 5.0 feet at 10:30pm EDT. It then continued to rise, surpassing moderate flood stage (7.0 feet) and cresting at a height of 7.06 feet at 12:30am EDT on September 2nd. The river then gradually fell through the overnight hours, receding below minor flood stage by 10:45am EDT on September 2nd.
The Mahwah River near Suffern New York exceeded its flood stage of 4.0 feet at 5:00pm EST on January 12th, crested at a height of 4.42 feet at 7:00pm EST, and fell back below flood stage at 9:30pm EST.
The Mahwah River at Suffern rose above its flood stage of 4.0 feet at 11:00am EDT, crested at a height of 5.51 feet at 2:45pm EDT, and fell below flood stage at 7:15am EDT on April 17th.
The Mahwah River near Suffern, NY rose above its flood stage of 4.0 feet at 12:00pm EDT on July 7th, crested at a height of 5.16 feet at 1:45pm, and fell back below flood stage by 5:00pm EDT.
The Mahwah River at Suffern exceeded its flood stage of 4.0 feet at 5:45 pm EST, crested at 5.0 ft. at 11:15 pm and fell back within its banks at 7:45 pm on May 1. Storm total rainfall amounts reported across the county ranged from 2.85 inches in Suffern to 3.78 inches in Spring Valley.
The Mahwah River at Suffern remained in flood from April 30. Water levels were falling at midnight EST and the river fell back within its banks at 7:45 pm EST on May 1.
The Mahwah River at Suffern exceeded its flood stage of 4.0 ft. at 6:45 am. The river crested at 4.31 ft. at 8:15 am and fell back below flood stage at 11:00 am.
The Mahwah River at Suffern exceeded bankfull and crested at 7.06 ft. on March 14 at 0215 EST. Several other rivers and small streams across the county also rose out of their banks causing flooding. The Ramapo River at Ramapo also rose out of its banks causing Route 17 to be closed in Sloatsburg and Hillsburn. The flooding was so severe that firefighters had to rescue a driver trapped in a car at the entrance to I-87. The New York State Thruway, I-87, was also closed from exit 15A to the Orange County line.||The storm total rainfall amount received from Nanuet was 4.18 inches.
The Mahwah River at Suffern exceeded its' flood stage of 4 feet on Dec. 23, 2007 at 8:45 pm with a stage of 4.12 feet. The river crested at 5.65 feet on Dec. 24, 2007 at 12:30 am and returned within its banks on Dec 24, 2007 at 1:30 pm.
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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