Krom Stone House at 31 Upper Whitfield Road

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

From the record

“Krom Stone House at 31 Upper Whitfield Road is a historic home located at Rochester in Ulster County, New York. It is a stone dwelling in a linear plan built about 1764.”
Wikipedia article Krom Stone House at 31 Upper Whitfield Road, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 31 Upper Whitfield Rd., Rochester, 12404
When was it listed? August 1995
Category. building
Also known as. Rochester MPS
Town. Rochester town
National Register reference number. 95000954 - 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

209 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 209 fires within 5 miles of Krom Stone House at 31 Upper Whitfield Road between 1993 and 2020, burning about 5,307 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 28 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	133
Arson/incendiarism	28
Natural	13
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Debris and open burning	10
Recreation and ceremony	8
Smoking	7

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
6 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
5 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
4 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
3 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
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

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Krom Stone House at 31 Upper Whitfield Road: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Accord Stone and Lime Company	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Krom Road Gravel Bank	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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 coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, 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
Krom Stone House at 45 Upper Whitfield Road	0.2 miles	1995
Lucas Krom Stone House	0.3 miles	1995
Johannes Rider Stone House	0.3 miles	1995
Jacob F. Markle Stone House	0.6 miles	1995
Zachariah Barley Stone House	0.6 miles	1995
Middaugh-Stone House and Dutch Barn	0.7 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000954 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.