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Photograph of High Falls Historic District
Photograph by Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

High Falls Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“The High Falls Historic District corresponds roughly to the downtown section of the hamlet of that name in Marbletown, New York, United States. It is a 21-acre (8.5 ha) area around the intersection of state highway NY 213, Main Street, Mohonk Road (Ulster County Route 6A0 and Bruceville Road just south of Rondout Creek.”

Wikipedia article High Falls Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 1998 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. Roughly along NY 213 and Main St., Marbletown, 12440
  • When was it listed? August 1998
  • Category. district
  • Town. Marbletown town
  • National Register reference number. 98001005 - 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

157 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of High Falls Historic District between 1993 and 2020, burning about 159 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined76
Debris and open burning22
Smoking15
Equipment and vehicle use12
Arson/incendiarism12
Natural10
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
29 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
2 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 September 2001Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
13 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 August 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.4 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
3 August 2002Natural2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Ulster County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of High Falls Historic District: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Abrasive. 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
Diamond Productions/ Clifton, N.J.AbrasiveUnknown

Every working recorded in Ulster County

Storms near this property

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marbletown, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flood. 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
May 1996Thunderstorm WindMarbletown$10,000no account filed
July 2021HailMarbletown-One and a quarter inch hail reported near Marbletown, NY.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindMarbletown-Tree downed onto wires along Route 209.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindMarbletown-A tree was downed on wires on Marcott Road.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMarbletown-Numerous trees were reported down in Marbletown as a result of thunderstorm winds.
June 2009FloodMarbletown-Heavy rainfall led to flooding, resulting in the closure of Tongore Road.
October 2006FloodMarbletown-County Road 6 was closed due to flooding in Marbletown Township, approximately 6 miles southwest of Marbletown.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindMarbletown-Trees and wires down.
May 2002HailMarbletown-no account filed

Every storm 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 middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98001005 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ulster CountyAll 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.
  • 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.