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Ulster and Delaware Railroad Station
Built in 1913. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.
From the record
“Haines Falls is a defunct railroad station in the eponymous hamlet of Haines Falls, town of Hunter, Greene County, New York. Located at the end of Railroad Station Road in Haines Falls, the station served trains of the Ulster and Delaware Railroad's Kaaterskill Branch, a division of the New York Central Railroad.”
Wikipedia article Haines Falls station, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 101 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1913.
National Register reference number.96000861- 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
1892 to 1997
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18921997
Fires near this property
108 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Ulster and Delaware Railroad Station
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 76 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 8 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
39
Debris and open burning
21
Recreation and ceremony
16
Natural
9
Arson/incendiarism
8
Smoking
7
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Other causes
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 federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Ulster and Delaware Railroad Station: 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Hunter, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain.
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.
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.
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.
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