Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.
From the record
“Phoenicia is a defunct commuter railroad station in the eponymous hamlet of Phoenicia, located in the town of Shandaken, Ulster County, New York. Located on Lower High Street, the station serviced trains of New York Central Railroad's Catskill Mountain and Kaaterskill Branches.”
Wikipedia article Phoenicia station, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.95000474- 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
1900 to 1997
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19001997
Fires near this property
20 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Phoenicia Railroad Station
between 1993 and 2017, burning about 20 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Recreation and ceremony
5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
Debris and open burning
4
Smoking
3
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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 National Weather Service names
Phoenicia, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 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.
Flooding occurred in Downtown Phoenicia between 2:00 am and 5:30 am. Water was flowing down Main Street from the Esopus Creek. Eleven people were evacuated.
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.
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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