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Rowe-Lant Farm

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

From the record

“Rowe-Lant Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at East Chatham in Columbia County, New York. The farmhouse was built about 1790 and is an L-shaped dwelling with a 2-story, brick main block and brick and frame wing.”

Wikipedia article Rowe-Lant Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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

The listing

  • Address. 983 NY Rte. 295, East Chatham, 12060
  • When was it listed? March 2010
  • Category. building
  • Town. Chatham town
  • National Register reference number. 10000099 - 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

115 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Rowe-Lant Farm between 1993 and 2020, burning about 114 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined54
Debris and open burning24
Arson/incendiarism10
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Natural6
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
23 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
22 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
10 September 2009Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this property

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Chatham, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2021: 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
June 2021Thunderstorm WindEast Chatham-Trees and wires were downed along the Albany Turnpike and Decker Street in Chatham.
June 2011HailEast Chatham-Half dollar size hail was reported during a thunderstorm approximately 2 miles west-northwest of Canaan. The hail broke some windows.

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.

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
New Concord Historic District0.8 miles2010
Knollcroft1.0 miles1985
Wilbor, The, House2.9 miles1997
John S. Williams House and Farm3.3 miles1996
Red Rock Schoolhouse3.7 miles2022
Spengler Bridge3.7 miles1973

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 10000099 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.
  • 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.