From the record
101 National Register listings published here, 2 of them National Historic Landmarks.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
159 topographic sheets cover 88 settlements here, and 101 properties are on the National Register of Historic Places.
101 National Register listings published here, 2 of them National Historic Landmarks.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.
Drawn when these were printed as single large sheets: the town seen from the air, and the county divided into its farms with every owner named. Each opens the original at the Library of Congress.




Selected from the Digital Public Library of America's 65 image records catalogued for this county. Every one shown here carries a public-domain status or a licence that permits reuse on a site that carries advertising; non-commercial, share-alike and restricted images are excluded. The selection is spread across the county's towns (at most eight per town), so no single institution's bulk upload crowds out the rest. Each opens the holding library's record, and the complete set at the Digital Public Library of America is one click away.
















































Flown by the U.S. Geological Survey between 1937 and 1989, the Aerial Photo Single Frames collection is the definitive mid-century view of the land: fields, roads and rivers as the camera saw them. The Survey holds 1,080 frames inside the rectangle that bounds this county; the 28 frames below were taken over the county itself, chosen across the decades of flights (at most four a year from that rectangle), so one flight cannot crowd out the rest. The full set is free to browse and download at EarthExplorer under the dataset Aerial Photo Single Frames.




























The thermometers that kept this county's weather, and the gages that measured the flow of its streams, as the federal records hold them. The extremes below are measured values from those records, not estimates.
Who lived here in 1950, one enumeration district at a time, as the Census Bureau described each district. Each row opens its official National Archives result, with Population Schedules and ED Maps available there.
Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 1,136 of them, burning about 1,525 acres. 76 started naturally and 125 were recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 490 |
| Debris and open burning | 261 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 125 |
| Natural | 76 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 60 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 44 |
| Smoking | 38 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 18 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 11 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 |
| Other causes | 3 |
The five largest, by the area the report gives. Two of them were set deliberately.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 May 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 146 acres | New York Forest Rangers | HEAVENLY VALLEY FIRE |
| 25 April 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 90 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 31 March 1999 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 8 April 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 42 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 21 April 2002 | Natural | 30 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 6 June 2002 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 25 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 31 March 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | New York Forest Rangers | not named |
| 2 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 16 acres | New York Forest Rangers | TIMMERMAN HILL FIRE |
Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.
The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 379 reports for this county, causing 3 deaths, 17 injuries and about $31,598,500 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.
| Kind of event | Reports |
|---|---|
| Thunderstorm Wind | 189 |
| Flash Flood | 62 |
| Hail | 53 |
| Flood | 46 |
| Lightning | 15 |
| Tornado | 9 |
| Heavy Rain | 5 |
The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2023 | Flood | Leeds | 1 killed, $30,000 | Rising waters on the Catskill Creek flooded portions of Route 23B and Cauterskill Road near Leeds. A 76-year-old woman died after their vehicle was swept off Cauterskill Road due to flood waters after driving around a traffic barrier blocking the road. |
| August 2011 | Flood | Lanesville | 1 killed | Route 214 was reported closed due to flooding from the Ulster-Greene County border, near Moggre Road, to Route 23A in Greene County. The Stony Clove Creek runs along much of Route 214. In Lanesville, a man drowned when the embankment he was standing on near a bridge near Ostrander Road gave way and swept him into the Stony Clove Creek. He was reported helping another person move a car across the bridge. Time of the fatality is unknown. |
| August 2011 | Flash Flood | Hensonville | 1 killed | A woman drowned when the house she was in was swept away by waters from the Batavia Kill on Maplecrest Road (County Route 40) in the hamlet of Maplecrest Town of Windham. The time of her death was unknown. |
| July 2003 | Tornado (F2) | Kiskatom | 7 hurt, $1,000,000 | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Haines Falls | 5 hurt, $1,000 | no account filed |
| March 2016 | Lightning | Palenville | 2 hurt | Two campers were injured by a lightning strike near North-South Lake in Greene County. The two campers, a man and a woman, were located in a grove of hemlock trees off a trail when lightning struck a tree 5 to 10 feet from their tent. The woman lost consciousness and the man may have as well. The woman received superficial burns, but the man received more severe burns and required hospitalization. |
| April 1990 | Tornado (F0) | not stated | 1 hurt, $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cairo | 1 hurt, $1,000 | ***1 injury*** Tree down on mobile home. |
| August 2000 | Lightning | Coxsackie | 1 hurt | no account filed |
| July 1989 | Tornado (F4) | not stated | $25,000,000 | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Flash Flood | Countywide | $3,000,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Cairo | $400,000 | A National Weather Service Survey Team determined that straight line wind damage occurred in portions of Cairo, South Cairo, and Leeds during the early afternoon hours of Sunday July 27th.||Fifty to one hundred pine trees were sheared off along County Route 67 in South Cairo around 1135 LST, with peak winds estimated at 100 mph.||In addition, several trees were uprooted on Rocky Road near South Cairo around 1135 LST, some of which fell through homes. Two homes were badly damaged. Peak winds were estimated between 100 and 110 mph.||Numerous trees were also downed in a fan like pattern on Mclaren Road in South Cairo around 1143 LST. Peak estimated winds were 115 to 125 mph.||Farm equipment was also overturned on Pine Farm, located on Pine Lane in Cairo around 1149 LST. Peak estimated winds were 115 to 125 mph. |
| December 2010 | Flash Flood | Leeds | $180,000 | A home was severely damaged by water due to flash flooding on County Route 23B in Leeds/Catskill. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Coxsackie | $150,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Flash Flood | Countywide | $115,000 | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Lightning | Greenville | $100,000 | Lightning from a thunderstorm struck a barn in Greenville, Greene County. This 70' by 40' barn caught fire and completely burned to the ground. Sixty firefighters were deployed to the scene. No injuries were reported. |
| July 2003 | Tornado (F1) | Coxsackie | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Lightning | Athens | $100,000 | no account filed |
| December 2020 | Flood | Jewett | $85,000 | County Route 17 in Jewett was closed between Route 23A and Mill Hollow Road due to a washout. A power pole on the side of the road was also washed out. A complete rebuild of the road was required, and the road remained closed as of mid-February 2021. |
| December 2020 | Flood | Palenville | $75,000 | A creek washed over a bridge on Pennsylvania Avenue in Catskill, depositing debris and damaging the roadway. |
| August 1996 | Lightning | Lexington | $60,000 | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prattsville | $55,000 | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cairo | $55,000 | no account filed |
| December 2000 | Flash Flood | Countywide | $55,000 | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Lightning | Catskill | $50,000 | Lightning from a thunderstorm struck a house in Catskill, Green County on the evening of August 31. The lightning resulted in a fire on the porch and also damaged electronic equiment. |
| June 2001 | Lightning | Athens | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Lightning | Catskill | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Baltimore | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coxsackie | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Flash Flood | Halcott Center | $40,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Flash Flood | Northeast Portion | $30,000 | During the late evening hours of May 6, thunderstorms with torrential rain produced flash flooding across the northeast portion of Greene County. At the Hamlet of New Baltimore, Church Street was washed out and State Highway 144 was closed. Underpasses were flooded in Coxsackie along with many basements. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Catskill | $30,000 | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Flash Flood | Athens | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Flash Flood | Catskill | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Tornado (F1) | Palenville | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coxsackie | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Flash Flood | Countywide | $25,000 | no account filed |
| April 1977 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | $25,000 | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Flood | Climax | $20,000 | Several roads were closed due to flooding within the Town of Coxsackie in addition to some flooding of basements. |
| April 2022 | Flood | Acra | $20,000 | Several roads were closed due to flooding across Cairo, Leeds, Jefferson Heights and Catskill. One water rescue was performed in Catskill as a person was trapped in their car which was surrounded by floodwaters. |
| August 2002 | Lightning | Greenville | $20,000 | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Flash Flood | Windham | $20,000 | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Flash Flood | Windham/Roundtop | $20,000 | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Flash Flood | West Kill | $20,000 | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Flash Flood | Hensonville | $15,000 | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Athens | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coxsackie | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roundtop | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Lightning | Coxsackie | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hunter | $12,000 | no account filed |
| October 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Catskill | $10,000 | A tree was downed onto a house with partial structural collapse. This occurred in the Village of Catskill. |
| March 2008 | Flood | Coxsackie | $10,000 | Heavy rainfall led to flooding across portions of Greene county. Several roads were closed in Coxsackie, including Mansion Street where more than 3 feet of water covered the road. Other roads that were reportedly closed included North Mount Turnpike in Catskill, and Routes 30 and 47 in Catskill. |
| August 2003 | Flash Flood | Catskill | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Tornado (F1) | Athens | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Durham | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windham | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Coxsackie | $10,000 | no account filed |
| March 1999 | Flash Flood | Countywide | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Lightning | Palenville | $10,000 | no account filed |
The Survey's mineral resources record lists 51 workings inside this county. 24 still produce and 27 are closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.
| Commodity | Workings |
|---|---|
| Stone, Crushed/Broken | 20 |
| Limestone, General | 11 |
| Clay | 10 |
| Sand and Gravel, Construction | 3 |
| Flagstone | 3 |
| Quartz | 2 |
| Mica | 1 |
| Gypsum-Anhydrite | 1 |
The least common of them first, because a county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| George Guidone Property Deposit | Mica | Occurrence | ||
| Paul Blum Cementon Plant | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Producer | ||
| Austin's Glen Deposit | Quartz | Occurrence | ||
| Diamond Hill Deposit | Quartz | Occurrence | ||
| Bronk Mill Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Cairo Blue Sandstone Quarry | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| High Hill Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| High Hill Pit and Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Saxton Blue Sandstone Quarry | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| South Potic Mountain Blue Ss Quarry | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Cox Sackie Clay Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Cox Sackie Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Hudson Clay Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| North Catskill Clay Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| North Catskill Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Route 81 Shale Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Smith's Landing Clay Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Smith's Landing Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| West Athens Clay Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| West Athens Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Alsen Limestone Quarry | Limestone, General | Producer | Limestone | |
| Alsen Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Catskill Limestone Quarry | Limestone, General | Producer | Limestone | |
| Catskill Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Catskill Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Catskill Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Cementon - Alsen Limestone Quarries | Limestone, General | Producer | Limestone | |
| Cementon Limestone Quarry | Limestone, General | Producer | Limestone | |
| Climax West Limestone Quarry | Limestone, General | Producer | Limestone | |
| Cox Sackie Limestone Quarry | Limestone, General | Producer | Limestone | |
| New Baltimore Limestone Quarry | Limestone, General | Producer | Limestone | |
| 3/4 Mile N.N.E. Saxton Blue Sandstone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Alsen Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Alsen Quarry & Cement Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Cairo Blue Sandstone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Catskill Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Catskill Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Catskill Quarry & Cement Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Catskill Quarry & Cement Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Cementon Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Cementon-Alsen Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Climax West Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Cox Sackie Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| F. J. Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Lawrenceville Sandstone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Lawrenceville Sandstone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| New Baltimore Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| South Potic Mountain Blue Sandstone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| South Vedder Hill Sandstone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| South Vedder Hill Sandstone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | Sedimentary |
Named settlements recorded in the Geographic Names Information System, each with the topographic sheets covering it. Villages, hamlets and abandoned places alike. Each is shown with the nearest named watercourse or landform and the survey quadrangle it falls on.
Coxsackie town · 12051 · Near Flint Mine Hill · Hudson North quadrangle
25 sheets, 1893 to 1986
Windham town · 12439 · Near Black Dome Valley · Hensonville quadrangle
23 sheets, 1893 to 1986
Catskill town · 12414 · On Kaaterskill Creek · Cementon quadrangle
27 sheets, 1895 to 1986
Coxsackie town · 12051 · Near Lampman Hill · Hudson North quadrangle
25 sheets, 1893 to 1986
Durham town · 12423 · On Cornwallville Creek · Freehold quadrangle
21 sheets, 1893 to 1986
Greenville town · 12083 · Near Murder Bridge Hill · Alcove quadrangle
25 sheets, 1893 to 1986
Greenville town · 12083 · Near King Hill · Greenville quadrangle
22 sheets, 1893 to 1986
Hunter town · 12436 · On Spruce Creek · Kaaterskill Clove quadrangle
32 sheets, 1892 to 1997
Halcott town · 12430 · On West Settlement Creek · West Kill quadrangle
21 sheets, 1900 to 1986
Windham town · 12439 · Near Black Dome Valley · Hensonville quadrangle
23 sheets, 1893 to 1986
Catskill town · 12414 · Near Austin Glen · Cementon quadrangle
27 sheets, 1895 to 1986
Hunter town · 12450 · On Hollow Tree Brook · Lexington quadrangle
21 sheets, 1900 to 1986
Catskill town · 12414 · Near Kiskatom Flats · Cementon quadrangle
27 sheets, 1895 to 1986
Catskill town · 12463 · Near Rip Van Winkle Hollow · Kaaterskill Clove quadrangle
32 sheets, 1892 to 1997
Windham town · 12454 · Near Van Loan Hill · Hensonville quadrangle
23 sheets, 1893 to 1986
Lexington town · 12468 · Near Maben Hill · Prattsville quadrangle
21 sheets, 1901 to 1986
New Baltimore town · 12124 · On Hannacrois Creek · Ravena quadrangle
25 sheets, 1893 to 1986
Lexington town · 12468 · Near Maben Hill · Prattsville quadrangle
21 sheets, 1901 to 1986
New Baltimore town · 12192 · Near Bronck Island · Ravena quadrangle
25 sheets, 1893 to 1986
Catskill town · 12463 · Near Kaaterskill Clove · Kaaterskill Clove quadrangle
32 sheets, 1892 to 1997
Prattsville town · 12468 · On Huntersfield Creek · Prattsville quadrangle
21 sheets, 1901 to 1986
Prattsville town · 12468 · Near Bald Mountain · Prattsville quadrangle
21 sheets, 1901 to 1986
Athens town · 12015 · Near West Flats · Hudson North quadrangle
25 sheets, 1893 to 1986
Jewett town · 12442 · Near Taylor Hollow · Lexington quadrangle
21 sheets, 1900 to 1986
Hunter town · 12436 · On Spruce Creek · Kaaterskill Clove quadrangle
32 sheets, 1892 to 1997
Athens town · 12015 · Near Hallenbeck Hill · Hudson North quadrangle
25 sheets, 1893 to 1986
Coxsackie town · 12051 · Near Coxsackie Island · Hudson North quadrangle
25 sheets, 1893 to 1986