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Photograph of Hulet Clark Farmstead
Photograph by Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Hulet Clark Farmstead

Built in 1800. 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 Hulet Clark Farmstead is located along South Plank Road north of the hamlet of Westtown, in the Town of Minisink, New York, United States. It is a 75-acre property along both sides of the road, consisting of a farmhouse, barn, chicken coop and other outbuildings.”

Wikipedia article Hulet Clark Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 187 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1998 · category: Building · built in 1800.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Clark, Hulet, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 207 S. Plank Rd., Westtown, 10998
  • When was it listed? November 1998
  • Category. building
  • Town. Minisink town
  • When was it built? 1800
  • National Register reference number. 98001343 - 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

189 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Hulet Clark Farmstead between 1995 and 2020, burning about 147 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined105
Natural20
Debris and open burning17
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use14
Smoking8
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1

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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
19 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
15 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
12 September 1995Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Hulet Clark Farmstead: 4 past producers, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc. 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
Champion MineLead, ZincProspect
Mount Salem QuarryStone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer1899
Westtown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Westtown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Westtown Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Westtown Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this property

4 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westtown, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2023: 1 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood, 1 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
July 2020LightningWesttown$10,000Fire Department sent to Laurel Hill Drive for burning smell due to house struck by lightning.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWesttown$3,000Trees down on wires near Jacobs Road and Route 1.
July 2023Flash FloodWesttown-Fire department reports water entering the basement of a home.
July 2013HailWesttown-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 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Woodlawn Farm4.2 miles2008
Primitive Baptist Church of Brookfield4.2 miles1976
Dunning House4.8 miles2001
Huguenot Schoolhouse6.5 miles1997
Neversink Valley Grange No. 15306.6 miles2013
Gumaer Cemetery6.8 miles2017

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98001343 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.