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Bigelow-Finch-Fowler Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. 22 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1888.

From the record

One of 155 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 2019 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. 1549 US 20, West Lebanon, 12195
  • When was it listed? November 2019
  • Category. district
  • Town. New Lebanon town
  • National Register reference number. 100004553 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1888 to 1998

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 110 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Bigelow-Finch-Fowler Farm, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet covering Bigelow-Finch-Fowler Farm, surveyed 1888

Fires near this property

133 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Bigelow-Finch-Fowler Farm between 1992 and 2020, burning about 140 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined86
Debris and open burning13
Natural11
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 August 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
24 August 2018Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
4 July 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bigelow-Finch-Fowler Farm: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Lebanon Springs Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this property

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Lebanon, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 2000Flash FloodWest Lebanon$18,000no account filed
October 2020Thunderstorm WindWest Lebanon-A tree and wires were downed.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindWest Lebanon-A tree was downed onto power lines on Winslow Road in the town of New Lebanon due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindWest Lebanon-A tree was downed and blocking Winslow Road in the town of New Lebanon due to thunderstorm winds.
October 2013Thunderstorm WindWest Lebanon-Trees were reported down on Winslow Road in the town of New Lebanon as a result of thunderstorm winds.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindWest Lebanon-Numerous trees were reported down in West Lebanon due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2004LightningWest Lebanon-Power outages caused by lightning strikes.

Every storm recorded in Columbia County

Maps showing this location

22 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
Elisha Gilbert House2.3 miles1984
Donnelly House3.2 miles2000
New Lebanon District No. 8 School4.1 miles2021
Gov. Samuel J. Tilden Monument4.4 miles2006
Lebanon Springs Union Free School4.5 miles1991
Church of Our Saviour4.6 miles1997

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100004553 in Record Group 79.
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.