Alexander Thompson House

Built in 1770 (Federal architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“The Alexander Thompson House is one of several originally built by members of the Thompson family in Thompson Ridge, a hamlet in the Town of Crawford in Orange County, New York. It is located, like the others, along NY 302 just south of the intersection with Thompson Ridge Road.”
Wikipedia article Alexander Thompson House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1997 · category: Building · built in 1770, Federal architecture.

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 3 buildingss, 3 structuress, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Thompson, Alexander, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Jct. of NY 302 and Thompson Ridge Rd., Crawford, 12566
When was it listed? June 1997
Category. building
Town. Crawford town
When was it built? 1770
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 97000568 - 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

185 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 185 fires within 5 miles of Alexander Thompson House between 1993 and 2020, burning about 174 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 49 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	74
Arson/incendiarism	49
Debris and open burning	24
Natural	16
Smoking	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4

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
7 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
23 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 August 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Orange 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 Alexander Thompson House: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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	Recorded
Grosso Materials	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Wallkill Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Wallkill Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Orange County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1904 USGS Ellenville quadrangle1:62500
1906 USGS Ellenville quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1943 USGS Pinebush quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Pine Bush quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 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
Hopewell Presbyterian Church	under 500 feet	1998
Crawford, John I, Farm	0.4 miles	1998
Shorter House	0.5 miles	1998
Andrew Thompson Farmstead	0.6 miles	2005
Robert A. Thompson House	0.8 miles	1998
Taylor-Corwin House	3.1 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000568 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orange County	All 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.