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Weldon House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

One of 101 National Register listings published here for Greene County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 6 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. NY 145, East Durham, 12423
  • When was it listed? January 2000
  • Category. building
  • Town. Durham town
  • National Register reference number. 99001658 - 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

179 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Weldon House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 175 acres in total. 7 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/undetermined103
Debris and open burning38
Arson/incendiarism15
Natural7
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
25 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 August 1998Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named

Every fire recorded in Greene 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 Weldon House: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica. 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
George Guidone Property DepositMicaOccurrence

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this property

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Durham, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 1 hail, 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 2020Thunderstorm WindEast Durham-Trees and wires were downed on Route 67 in Durham.
June 2011HailEast Durham-Penny size hail (measured) was reported during a thunderstorm in East Durham.

Every storm recorded in Greene County

Maps showing this location

9 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
Woodward Road Stone Arch Bridge0.9 miles2009
Hervey Street Road Stone Arch Bridge2.7 miles2008
Shady Glen Road Stone Arch Bridge3.4 miles2008
Dunix3.4 miles2018
Prevost Manor House3.7 miles1972
Cornwallville Cemetery3.9 miles2017

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99001658 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greene CountyAll 101 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.