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Photograph of Culver Randel House and Mill
Photograph by Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Randel, Culver House and Mill

Built in 1830 (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1906.

From the record

“The Culver Randel House and Mill is located along Randall Avenue and Browns Creek at the northern edge of the village of Florida, New York, United States. Culver built the mill around 1830 and the house 20 years later.”

Wikipedia article Culver Randel House and Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1998 · category: Building · built in 1830, Italianate 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 65 Randall St., Florida, 10921
  • When was it listed? May 1998
  • Category. building
  • Town. Warwick town
  • When was it built? 1830
  • Architectural style. Italianate architecture
  • National Register reference number. 98000554 - 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

300 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 300 fires within 5 miles of Randel, Culver House and Mill between 1995 and 2020, burning about 350 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 42 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/undetermined159
Arson/incendiarism42
Smoking39
Debris and open burning17
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony10
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
6 September 2016Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
6 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Randel, Culver House and Mill: 6 past producers, 5 producers, 2 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fluorine-Fluorite, Gemstone, Titanium, Zirconium, Titanium. 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
Edenville Fluorite DepositFluorine-Fluorite, Gemstone, Titanium, ZirconiumOccurrence
Edenville Rutile DepositTitaniumOccurrence
Goshen QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Goshen Quarry and MillLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Chester PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Chester PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Chester PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Chester Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Goshen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Goshen Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this property

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Florida, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2024Thunderstorm WindFlorida$10,000Tree down on a house on South Main Street.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindFlorida$3,000Trees reported down at Wheeler Road and Dusenburg Drive. Time estimated by radar.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindFlorida-no account filed
September 1998Thunderstorm WindFlorida-no account filed

Every storm 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
Mortimer L. Mapes House & Seward Homestead0.5 miles2011
William Henry Seward Memorial0.6 miles1999
District School No. 92.4 miles1988
Sawyer Farmhouse2.7 miles2005
Everett-Bradner House3.6 miles2004
George T. Wisner House3.7 miles2005

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98000554 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.
  • 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.