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Photograph of Isaac Cocks House
Photograph by JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ M.D, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Isaac Cocks House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Isaac Cocks House is a historic home located at Cornwall in Orange County, New York. The main house was built about 1795 and is a two-story, five-bay, center hall wood frame dwelling in the Federal style.”

Wikipedia article Isaac Cocks House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1996 · 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.
  • Listed as. Cocks, Isaac, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Old Pleasant Hill Rd., Cornwall, 12553
  • When was it listed? March 1996
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Cornwall MPS
  • Town. Cornwall town
  • Architectural style. Federal architecture
  • National Register reference number. 96000153 - 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

1902 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Isaac Cocks House, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Isaac Cocks House, surveyed 1902

Fires near this property

445 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 445 fires within 5 miles of Isaac Cocks House between 1993 and 2020, burning about 941 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 48 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/undetermined271
Arson/incendiarism48
Natural29
Recreation and ceremony27
Smoking20
Debris and open burning19
Equipment and vehicle use15
Fireworks10
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2016Recreation and ceremony3.8 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2014Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Isaac Cocks House: 5 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Zirconium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bog Meadow Pond DepositZirconiumOccurrence
Tower MineIronPast ProducerMagnetite
Townsend Canterbury MineIronPast ProducerResidual
Moodna PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Moodna PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plum Point PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Plum Point Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Orange County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Kellogg, The, Houseunder 500 feet2001
Vermont Hatch Mansion0.3 miles1995
Samuel Brooks House0.4 miles1996
Cromwell Manor1.0 miles1996
Wilford Wood House1.1 miles1998
Carvey-Gatfield House1.2 miles1996

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 96000153 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orange CountyAll 187 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.