Rest Plaus Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“Rest Plaus Historic District is a national historic district located at Marbletown in Ulster County, New York. The district includes 55 contributing buildings, four contributing sites, 10 contributing structures, and one contributing object.”
Wikipedia article Rest Plaus Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 1995 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly, along Old Kings Hwy., Rest Plaus Rd. and Lucas Tpk. (Co. Rt. 1), Marbletown, 12484
When was it listed? June 1995
Category. district
Town. Marbletown town
National Register reference number. 95000602 - 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

191 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 191 fires within 5 miles of Rest Plaus Historic District between 1993 and 2020, burning about 4,027 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 18 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	114
Arson/incendiarism	18
Debris and open burning	13
Natural	13
Smoking	13
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Recreation and ceremony	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
29 September 2005	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
16 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
11 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Rest Plaus Historic District: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Abrasive. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Accord Stone and Lime Company	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Diamond Productions/ Clifton, N.J.	Abrasive	Unknown
Krom Road Gravel Bank	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this property

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marbletown, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 5 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Marbletown	$10,000	no account filed
July 2021	Hail	Marbletown	-	One and a quarter inch hail reported near Marbletown, NY.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Marbletown	-	Tree downed onto wires along Route 209.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Marbletown	-	A tree was downed on wires on Marcott Road.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Marbletown	-	Numerous trees were reported down in Marbletown as a result of thunderstorm winds.
June 2009	Flood	Marbletown	-	Heavy rainfall led to flooding, resulting in the closure of Tongore Road.
October 2006	Flood	Marbletown	-	County Road 6 was closed due to flooding in Marbletown Township, approximately 6 miles southwest of Marbletown.
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Marbletown	-	Trees and wires down.
May 2002	Hail	Marbletown	-	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.

1901 USGS Rosendale quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Rosendale quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1942 USGS Mohonk Lake quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Mohonk Lake quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Mohonk Lake quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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
Roosa House	0.9 miles	2025
Sahler Stone House	1.2 miles	1999
Jacobus Van Wagenen Stone House	1.2 miles	1999
Van Wagenen Stone House and Farm Complex	1.3 miles	1999
Stilwell Stone House	1.3 miles	1999
J. Sahler House	1.3 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000602 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.