James Lynch House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1893.

From the record

“James Lynch House is a historic home located at Nutten Hook in Columbia County, New York, United States. It was built about 1900 and is a two-story, light frame building on a brick foundation.”
Wikipedia article James Lynch House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 155 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 2009 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Lynch, James, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 33 Ferry Rd., Nutten Hook, 12173
When was it listed? November 2009
Category. building
Town. Stuyvesant town
National Register reference number. 09000906 - 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

157 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of James Lynch House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 130 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 30 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	56
Arson/incendiarism	30
Debris and open burning	29
Natural	13
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Recreation and ceremony	8
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	NA
7 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	not named
5 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	New York Forest Rangers	not named
21 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of James Lynch House: 5 producers, 5 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Bronk Mill Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Climax West Limestone Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer	Limestone
Climax West Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Cox Sackie Limestone Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer	Limestone
Cox Sackie Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Cox Sackie Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
Cox Sackie Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Route 81 Shale Pit	Clay	Producer
Stuyvesant Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
Stuyvesant Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working 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.

1893 USGS Coxsackie quadrangle1:62500
1894 USGS Coxsackie quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1929 USGS Coxsackie quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Hudson North quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Hudson North quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Pittsfield 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
Lynch Hotel	under 500 feet	2005
R. and W. Scott Ice Company Powerhouse and Ice House Site	0.2 miles	1985
Stuyvesant Railroad Station	2.3 miles	1999
Smith Octagon House	2.5 miles	2025
William A. Witbeck House	2.6 miles	1994
Stuyvesant Falls Mill District	2.6 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000906 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Columbia County	All 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.