New Concord Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“New Concord Historic District is a national historic district located at New Concord in Columbia County, New York. The district includes 31 contributing buildings, one contributing site, and eight contributing structures.”
Wikipedia article New Concord Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 155 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 2010 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Co. Rt. 9, New Concord, 12060
When was it listed? January 2010
Category. district
Town. Chatham town
National Register reference number. 09001268 - 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

117 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of New Concord Historic District between 1993 and 2020, burning about 116 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 10 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
Debris and open burning	25
Arson/incendiarism	10
Natural	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Recreation and ceremony	2

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 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
27 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
22 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
10 September 2009	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
15 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
12 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this property

11 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Concord, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2025	Flood	New Concord	$1,000	A New York Alert from the Department of Transportation reported the flooding and closure of NY 295 going both directions between Rod and Gun Club Road and Hartigan Road in Chatham in Columbia County. Both lanes of this road were closed as of 1121 AM EST.
March 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	New Concord	-	A utility pole and power lines were reported down on Percey Hill Road.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	New Concord	-	Multiple trees were reported down in the town of Chatham including the intersection of Route 9 and Daley Road and Loomis Road.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	New Concord	-	Taconic State Parkway SB was closed just north of Exit 102.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	New Concord	-	A few large limbs and trees were downed on New Concord Road near Route 9.
July 2021	Flash Flood	New Concord	-	New Concord Road was flooded between State Route 295 and County Route 9.
October 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	New Concord	-	A tree was downed onto wires.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	New Concord	-	A tree was down and on a power line on State Route 295 near Hartigan Road in the town of Chatham.
June 2011	Hail	New Concord	-	Quarter size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in East Chatham.
June 2011	Hail	New Concord	-	Quarter size hail was reported during a thunderstorm in East Chatham.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	New Concord	-	A tree was reported down due to strong thunderstorm winds and was blocking Frisbee Street in Canaan.

Every storm recorded in Columbia County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1903 USGS Kinderhook quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1933 USGS Kinderhook quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Kinderhook quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS East Chatham 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
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
Knollcroft	0.4 miles	1985
Rowe-Lant Farm	0.8 miles	2010
Red Rock Schoolhouse	2.8 miles	2022
The Red Rock Monument	2.9 miles	2025
Wilbor, The, House	3.7 miles	1997
Sanford W. and Maude Smith House	3.9 miles	2020

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09001268 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.
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.