Minisink Battlefield

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1913.

From the record

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 1993 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. York Lake Rd. (Co. Rd. 168) N of Minisink Ford, Minisink Ford, 12719
When was it listed? September 1993
Category. site
Also known as. Upper Delaware Valley, New York and Pennsylvania MPS
Town. Highland town
National Register reference number. 93000946 - 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

1913 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Minisink Battlefield, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet covering Minisink Battlefield, surveyed 1913

Fires near this property

96 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Minisink Battlefield between 2001 and 2020, burning about 96 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 22 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
Debris and open burning	36
Arson/incendiarism	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Smoking	3
Fireworks	1
Other causes	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
2 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Pennsylvania Division of Forest Fire Protection	not named
28 August 2015	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
4 July 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
20 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
2 June 2008	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
1 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this property

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Minisink Ford, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 flash 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
January 1996	Flash Flood	Minisink Ford	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

1913 USGS Milford quadrangle1:62500
1915 USGS Milford quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1944 USGS Milford quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Shohola quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1986 USGS Middletown quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1994 USGS Shohola quadrangle1:24000
1997 USGS Shohola quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

3 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
Spring House	2.7 miles	2009
Tusten Stone Arch Bridge	5.3 miles	2000
Ten Mile River Baptist Church	5.5 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93000946 in Record Group 79.
Sullivan County	All 79 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.
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.