Sahler Stone House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“Sahler Stone House is a historic home located at Rochester in Ulster County, New York. The original block, dated to about 1750, is a two bay stone one story, one room structure.”
Wikipedia article Sahler Stone House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 209 National Register listings published here for Ulster County · listed in 1999 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. Kyserike Rd., Rochester, 12484
When was it listed? August 1999
Category. building
Also known as. Rochester MPS
Town. Rochester town
Architectural style. American colonial architecture
National Register reference number. 99000992 - 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

201 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 201 fires within 5 miles of Sahler Stone House between 1993 and 2020, burning about 5,297 acres in total. 14 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	112
Arson/incendiarism	28
Debris and open burning	16
Natural	14
Smoking	10
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Recreation and ceremony	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Other causes	1

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
6 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
5 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
4 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
29 September 2005	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
19 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
17 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Ulster 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 Sahler Stone House: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Abrasive. 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
Accord Stone and Lime Company	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Diamond Productions/ Clifton, N.J.	Abrasive	Unknown
Krom Road Gravel Bank	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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.

1901 USGS Rosendale quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Rosendale quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1942 USGS Mohonk Lake quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Mohonk Lake quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Mohonk Lake quadrangle1:24000 - 3 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
J. Sahler House	0.4 miles	2000
Winfield Corners Stone House	0.4 miles	1999
Stilwell Stone House	0.5 miles	1999
Davis Stone House	0.6 miles	1999
Sahler Stone House and Dutch Barn	0.7 miles	1999
Stilwill-Westbrook Stone House	0.9 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000992 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ulster County	All 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.