Smith-Voorhees-Covenhoven House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1896.

From the record

One of 62 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 2022 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 141 Reynolds Rd., Fultonville, 12072
When was it listed? February 2022
Category. district
Town. Glen town
National Register reference number. 100007397 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

80 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Smith-Voorhees-Covenhoven House between 2001 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 9 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	48
Smoking	10
Arson/incendiarism	9
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	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
22 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
16 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 August 2017	Arson/incendiarism	2.4 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
6 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
5 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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 Smith-Voorhees-Covenhoven House: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Platinum, Nickel. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Fonda	Platinum, Nickel	Occurrence	Unknown

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this property

16 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fultonville, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2004	Lightning	Fultonville	1 hurt	Man transported to St. Mary's Hospital after experiencing a close lightning strike while driving along NYS Thruway. (Man was able to guide vehicle to median after the strike, was transported to the hospital, and was treated for light sensitivity.)
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Fultonville	-	Trees were downed on wires with power outages on Montgomery Street in the Village of Fonda.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Fultonville	-	Multiple trees were downed on Borden Road in the town of Glen.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Fultonville	-	A tree was downed blocking the road near the intersection of Highway 30A and Ingersoll Road.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Fultonville	-	Large trees were downed from strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Fultonville	-	A tree was downed blocking Route 5 just west of Winner's Circle Restaurant.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Fultonville	-	A tree was downed on wires at 2972 Route 30A in the Village of Fultonville.
September 2021	Hail	Fultonville	-	Trained weather spotter indicated one inch hail.
September 2021	Hail	Fultonville	-	There was a social media report of 0.88 inch hail in Fultonville.
September 2021	Flood	Fultonville	-	East Street and Park Street were closed due to flooding.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Fultonville	-	Trees were reported down at the intersection of Route 30A and Van Epps Road in Fultonville as a result of thunderstorm winds.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Fultonville	-	Trees were reported down along Route 30A just to the south of Fultonville due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2012	Hail	Fultonville	-	Nickel sized hail was reported during a thunderstorm in Fultonville.
October 2010	Flood	Fultonville	-	Heavy rains and the Mohawk River topping the flood wall at the New York State Canal Corporation facility on Route 30A in Fonda flooded part of the track and infield at the Fonda Speedway.
November 2005	Hail	Fultonville	-	A trained spotter reported that three quarter inch hail occurred at Fultonville.
August 2004	Hail	Fultonville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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.

1896 USGS Fonda quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Fonda quadrangle1:62500
1902 USGS Fonda quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1944 USGS Tribes Hill quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1946 USGS Tribes Hill quadrangle1:31680
1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Amsterdam 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
Glen Historic District	0.6 miles	2001
First Baptist Church	2.5 miles	1994
Danascara Place	3.9 miles	2019
Fultonville Historic District	4.4 miles	2019
Old Courthouse Complex	5.0 miles	1982
Walter Butler Homestead	5.3 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100007397 in Record Group 79.
Montgomery County	All 62 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.