Mamakating Park Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1909.

From the record

“The Mamakating Park Historic District is located on the ridge north of Masten Lake on the highest ground in the Town of Mamakating, New York, United States. It is a Catskill vacation community, originally intended to be the much larger Sullivan County Club, built in the 1890s.”
Wikipedia article Mamakating Park Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 79 National Register listings published here for Sullivan 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 Park Rd, Columbian Rd., and Mamakating Ave., Wurtsboro, 12790
When was it listed? November 1998
Category. district
Town. Mamakating town
National Register reference number. 98001393 - 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

172 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 172 fires within 5 miles of Mamakating Park Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,349 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 28 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	80
Arson/incendiarism	28
Debris and open burning	25
Smoking	12
Natural	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Recreation and ceremony	3

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 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
24 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
11 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 August 2017	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
27 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 August 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
21 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Mamakating Park Historic District: 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Shawangunk Mine	Copper, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Bridgeville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Bridgeville Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Benson's Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Goodwin Sand and Gravel, Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Phillipsort Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Phillipsort Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this property

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wurtsboro, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2011	Flash Flood	Wurtsboro	$75,000	Flooding occurred along Route 209 along the Pine Kill Creek. Some evacuations took place.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Wurtsboro	$15,000	A cluster of thunderstorms became severe near the Delaware river and moved through southern portions of the county, producing scattered wind damage. Trees and wires were downed in Wurtsboro around 1210 pm EDT and in Bloomingburg about 1215 pm.
November 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Wurtsboro	$10,000	Strong thunderstorm winds brought down trees in Wurtsboro to Bloomingburg.
September 2011	Flash Flood	Wurtsboro	$10,000	Water covered several roads and a mudslide was reported. Basement flooding was also reported.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Wurtsboro	$10,000	A thunderstorm briefly reached severe limits over southeastern Sullivan county. A few trees and wires were downed in the town of Lumberland.
June 1995	Hail	Wurtsboro	$10,000	An isolated severe thunderstorm dropped hail the size of tennis balls in Wurtsboro, damaging several cars. Other reports of golf ball-size hail were received from Wurtsboro around the same time.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Wurtsboro	$5,000	no account filed
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Wurtsboro	$3,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Wurtsboro	$3,000	A severe thunderstorm developed over the region and produced severe winds. This storm resulted in trees being knocked over and wires being forced down.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Wurtsboro	$2,200	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a pole and wires on Highway 209.
December 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Wurtsboro	$2,000	Trees and wires were blown down.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Wurtsboro	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Wurtsboro	-	Trees down from thunderstorm winds.
June 2009	Hail	Wurtsboro	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Wurtsboro	-	no account filed
September 1994	Hail	Wurtsboro	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan County

Maps showing this location

12 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.

1909 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500
1911 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1965 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1966 USGS Yankee Lake quadrangle1:24000 - 3 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
Reformed Dutch Church of Mamakating	3.6 miles	2022
Anshei Glen Wild Synagogue	3.7 miles	1999
Masten-Quinn House	3.8 miles	2003
Glen Wild Methodist Church	4.6 miles	1984
Hebrew Congregation of Mountaindale Synagogue	5.2 miles	2001
Silver Lake Dam	6.2 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001393 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sullivan County	All 79 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.