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Photograph of William and Victoria Pulver House
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William and Victoria Pulver House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“William and Victoria Pulver House is a historic home located at Snyderville in Columbia County, New York. It was built about 1875 and is a two-story, square plan wood-frame building with a hipped roof topped by a square cupola.”

Wikipedia article William and Victoria Pulver House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 155 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Pulver, William and Victoria, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 2329 Cty Rd. 8, Snyderville, 12523
  • When was it listed? April 2005
  • Category. building
  • Town. Gallatin town
  • Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 05000260 - 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

108 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of William and Victoria Pulver House between 1997 and 2020, burning about 169 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined47
Debris and open burning22
Natural16
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
25 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
17 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
3 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 July 2012Naturalunder an acreNew York Forest RangersNEW FORGE FIRE

Every fire recorded in Columbia 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 William and Victoria Pulver House: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Elizaville Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
F.H. Stickles & Son S & G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
F.H. Stickles & Son S & G Pit & MilSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this property

6 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Snyderville, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2013 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
September 2023Thunderstorm WindSnyderville-A couple of trees were downed along the Taconic State Parkway near Gellatin.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindSnyderville-A tree and wires were downed on Black Bridge Road.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindSnyderville-A tree and wires were downed.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindSnyderville-A large tree was downed onto a wire.
May 2018HailSnyderville-Hail shattered windows of two vehicles on the Taconic State Parkway near the Gallatin Overlook.
October 2013Thunderstorm WindSnyderville-Trees and wires were reported down as a result of thunderstorm winds at the corner of Lange Drive and Weaver Road in the town of Gallatin.

Every storm recorded in Columbia County

Maps showing this location

11 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
Snyderville Schoolhouse0.3 miles2004
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church2.1 miles2002
Bouwerie2.9 miles1983
Hickory Hill3.1 miles1983
Old Parsonage3.1 miles1983
Thomas Brodhead House3.3 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05000260 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Columbia CountyAll 155 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.